Accountability

I want to tell you

Sorry that it’s been a while

I should tell myself

Lazy Selfie

No need for make up

I indulge in vanity

With snapchat filters

Tired

Tired in the evening 

Tired in the morning

Sleep through the night

But no amount is just right

Milkweed

Silk red milkweed

Calls you to your chrysalis

Invites you to stay

Christmas party

Friends gather in the evening cold

To be welcomed into a warm abode

The fire’s on and gifts are exchanged

Some grow excited and others wane

Cookies are iced in green and red

Everyone eats until well fed

Classic movies on the tv

Conversations overlap with familiar scenes

The night drifts into the following day

Until sleepy peers can no longer stay

The valley after the peak

As we fall tired

In the morning

Of every day this week

–

Our actions are heavy

And our voice

Becomes meek

–

The top is not forever

There are valleys

After the peak

–

We must have sure feet

If our hearts

Continue to seek

–

So we slow our pace

To revive our strength

When we feel weak

–

That soon we may

Have energy enough

For another streak

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Sit in silence

Feel the land

Count my pulse while

You hold my hand

Let go of the things

You don’t understand

Let it fall away

Like grains of sand

You’re here right now

Just as planned

Wait for a moment

Before you stand

I’m half asleep

Begging to wake up

To enter the world

And shake off the heavy solitude

But it lays over me,

Spreads like the Pacific

Filing every direction

As far as open eyes can see

My ochre serpent

Releases her grasp on me

To find adventure

Wino

She always thinks she can fit 

One more glass into her gullet

There’s no room to dine 

‘Cause when it comes to wine

She just doesn’t know when to quit