Marlene, you are a child of GodMarlene, you have already lived a long timeMarlene, you should be thankful for the things you haveMarlene, I know God is watching youAnd keeping you alive every dayMarlene, you need to take care...

Worn shoes on the cold sidewalkThe asphalt holds what I didn't sayI keep walking alone while the shadow guides meSlow stepsIn this windI walkMaybe the north is an illusionA horizon with no directionLooking for traces in the crowdAfraid of...

today grew heavy like the snow blowing outside my window   emotions once stitched tightly into your special chamber of my heart rose up drifting like the flakes that keep falling my own season of pain   i shovel at the drifts try to pack them down a snowball of ache straining to breathe outside its...

I read a poem that evoked a teara single, trembling dropthat spun me backward,into shadows of what wasand the ever-present numbnessof could-have-beens.   25 days to go…The air tastes different now,heavier with memory,as the earth tilts toward the same cold lightyear...