I walk amidst shades
Specters of me
What I was
And the thousand ways
I could have been
Category: Free Verse
10/14/2023 – free me
Free me from myself
That I might fly high
That I might touch the sky
Unshackled from my own mind
10/13/2023 – faraway tongues
For me, I ask the wind to bring
Words from the farthest shore
The ones that clearly, brightly sing
Though I know not what for
10/11/2023 – fire/fire
fire
warms me
hurts me
burns me
saves me
fire
chokes from without
drives from within
fire
let it stay at bay
let it take my heart
10/10/2023 – through the years
The world keeps spinning faster
And whipping ’round the sun
Increasing speed, the bastard
And stepping on my fun
10/7/2023 – not myself
“Not myself”
What I say when I fail
What I say when I do wrong
What I say when I hurt another
What I say when I transgress
I am
“Not myself” when I fail
“Not myself” when I do wrong
“Not myself” when I hurt another
“Not myself” when I transgress
But
When I fail, I learn
When I do wrong, I own it
When I hurt another, I reconcile
When I transgress, I make whole
For to say I am not myself
Is to say I am more than I
So I shall not say
I am “not myself”
When I mean I am not as good as I wish to be
10/6/2023 – the noise within
I so abhor the noise within
That wears upon my weary mind
10/4/2023 – there
Run with me away to there:
Where we are true and free
Where we can breathe the lightest air
And simply start to be
10/3/2023 – wind of autumn
Whispering
It comes
Rises through the trees
To a roar
Brings a chill
Deep to my bones
Brings a promise
Of ice
9/30/2023 – book
It is empty
It is quiet
It does not speak
It does not move
But gaze upon it
It is full
It is loud
It sings symphonies
It pulls you places
Put it down
Naught but paper
A Poem A Day 