Heartbreak

  • Broken Hearts

    ‘Why do we do such terrible things to each other?’ said the softly spoken man at the library, who somehow knew I’d be the one person in the room who would listen. ‘I don’t know,’ I said, looking directly into… Continue reading

  • Enough

    I am only me. I am only here in this small body, with this small, helpless voice calling out. I reach out to hold them in pain, while others seek to tear them down. What are we doing, in the… Continue reading

  • Rainbow

    In my softness I hold this gift, for you. A small slice of home, and a tiny sun to shine only on you, sweet friend. This rain will pass, it will pass on through the air. And in your eyes… Continue reading

  • Open. Release.

    But did they give you a box of darkness? Or was the darkness already inside of you. Waiting for someone to press: open. And release. Continue reading

  • A Silver Breath

    I have craved your whispering goodness. I have known your shadows deep. And here we sing to a tender memory of scattered and tumbling diamond dust. A silver breath of life incomplete.     Continue reading

  • This Place of Quiet

    I am here in the quiet, knowing I am home. I am the same, in this place, as the windy trees and the sunset that melts across the bay. This quiet. It is the porcelain wail of a newborn child,… Continue reading

  • Sleepy Heart

    Sleepy heart, whisper to me of laughter and love; comfort trickling down the mountain of mysterious life. Shall I bring the sunrise? Shall I wipe away these tears with the sweet knowing of tomorrows smile? Continue reading

  • Darling Day 12. Darling Days

    The echo of two hearts drifting down the hall, and all the darling days we skipped arm in arm, like children; no more. All the beauty of our yesterday, I remember you. Fondly, I remember the darling days, and I… Continue reading

  • Hiding

    There must have been a fire like this before. The last fire… she couldn’t remember it, couldn’t remember a burn on each and every side before. Then again she had a habit of forgetting the fire like all the other… Continue reading