Needs

Breathe
Relax
Release the stress
A Yoga class
Meditate
Breathe
Create
Pottery, prints, paint
Art
Of any kind
Breathe
Live
Peacefully
In my own
HOME

A Vow

I choose 

You

As you are

Perfectly imperfect 

I choose 

You

In the morning

Before coffee

I choose 

You

With that awful smell

I choose 

You

Even with a tissue

In your nose

I choose

You

With all your issues

With your temper

Your anger and pain

I choose 

You

Who grinds

Your teeth at night

I choose

You

When money is tight

I choose 

You

Wrong or right

I choose 

You

And to you 

I will be true

 

Seeds

When I was a little girl 

eating my mud pies, my

bamboo twisted dream

shoots the moon

remember dangling from

the apple trees

man, we had no fear of

who we would become

planted in the grass with

them toes in the dirt

Choose emptiness

You can't insult anyone and expect them not to hurt.

You can't laugh at me and with me at the same time.

You can't say you care when your actions don't follow.

You can't see the love in another's heart when your own heart is hollow.

You can't judge without being judged. 

You can receive forgiveness while holding a grudge.

You can't draw boundaries for others when you cross them all yourself.

You can't love others when you don't love yourself.

You can't take away another's freedom without imprisoning yourself.

You can't give expecting gratitude.

You can't have peace unless you change your attitude.

You can't cry out for peace with blood on your hands.

You can't have two worlds in your hands.

Choose emptiness.

I give up

Age lets you abandon things. Today I give up self loathings.

Feelings of inadequacy, for what I am not offering.

Shame, for improper ways of responding to things that are most challenging.

Tomorrow brings better things.

Lady Bugs

Every year there is a season

When they come by the masses

It is a strange and beautiful thing

I watch where I step 

When I cross the threshold 

So not to harm a single one

Tiny red angelic insects

Make me feel a little bit blessed

Hard little bodies and delicate wings

Tickle my fingertips 

And released into the garden

Such funny little things

Inspire my creativity

Fly away

Off to the sun

Right now.

Ungrateful about my future.

It is such a big hassle.

Because it is so uncertain.

And what about my love?

He deserves so much better,

Much more than I am offering.

He should be a little king

Of his own little castle.

Ungrateful about my future.

Because the fiture I am offering

Is not suitable enough for him.

Who brings joy to my life,

Every day and night.

Ungrateful about my future

Because I am terrified,

That I won't do it right

And some how,

I am plagued so much by my future

That I am missing right now.