Family

As another year ends
I ponder about my life.
I think about what caused me to be who I am...

Calluses, bloody blisters on the bottoms of his feet
My grandmother would clean them, rub salve on...

Hi granny hope your proud of the young lady I have tuned into I may not be following you knit techies...

The best things in life are free.
Things such as oxygen, sunlight, and trees. A new day, family,...

He killed his family when he stepped on the throttle.
It was because he couldn't stop hitting the...

Innocently
I asked.

A door opens,
recklessly revealing
old life.

It...

Fertile
these wide lands
lay waiting.

Wind and water
made the corn be
...

Death is a given but the life left to live will be lived to the fullest I've had sleepless nights filled...

He cherished work, and football, God and mind.
She welcomed family life and all the work.
He...

warrior’s skin, hair grey and black beneath his palm straw hat,
he walks along the railroad tracks,...

staring at the woman
who once i called mom,
grasping onto her broken smile
searching...

I told the genie that I wanted to see my parents
and two brothers who had died, he said it would be...

I think
it was
interwoven

my thoughts
your thoughts

the breath
...

I never measured
up
to what I should
have
been

I never measured
...

many good things
can grow in a vacuum
many good things
that can make us feel better...

love is easy
when all goes well, but
with doubts and discrepancies
adversities darken...