My heart aches for something I cannot see
Wrapped up in one command, unyielding:
Be
Tag: iambic pentameter
11/4/2023 – at odds
My mind and body seem to be at odds
They make me question if they’re truly one
9/15/2023 – but a man
I swing and heft my worldly tools
That they might make of all around
A place more like what came before
When they were but a dream, I but a man
9/13/2023 – eternally
I watch and wait for anything to pass
Some moment that would make it clear to me:
This is the truth that I can trust to last
This is the path I’ll walk eternally
9/8/2023 – not to dwell
A fiery heat within my breast
Calls out to all the living earth
Cries not to dwell amongst the rest
But in a place of trees and birds and mirth
9/1/2023 – lead me astray
The reddened skies foretell a bloody day
And by and by I shiver for what comes
Such promises of wind and thunder’s drums
Threaten to take me and lead me astray
8/29/2023 – ashes
I walk amongst the ashes of a place
Gone dry and cold from unbound fear and greed
8/26/2023 – weep
The world around me swirls with fire and smoke
And all alive is screaming for relief
While man swaggers atop what he has broken
And finds not cause enough to fall and weep
8/18/2023 – forest bath
Amid the creeping boughs of cedar trees
I find a shadowed place to rest my head
Where verdant fragrances traverse the breeze
And mossy roots and vines make me a bed
6/17/2023 – wondering
I wonder after those I know no more
And whether they are wond’ring after me
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