Facing Forward, Pursuing Progress
Engine’s rumbling
Masses of plastic and steel
Suburbia lives
To live in the light
You cannot fear your darkness
Compassion inwards
Snow falling last night
Cold air clamored over us
Ice descends earthwards
Awake before dawn
In winter that is normal
Dawn’s not soon enough
Morning potential
Before the day’s chaos starts
Plans get distorted
Darkness descending
That living within our hearts
Often thrives at night
A tactical strike
Evading the defenses
Safe within their heart?
Work morning ’til night
Efficiency’s tyranny
Our rest becomes lost
Do you feel your work life is balanced with all the rest of what’s important?
News received
Unpleasantly
Deeply tinged
With sadness
Into a mirror
Gazing, wondering,
Unshaven for this
Weekend
Grey dominates
My beard
Change comes,
Celebrated at times
Or with dread
But it comes
Inevitably
Flame flutters
Victim of the breeze
Candles flicker
Departing from
Pedestals
Into the
Stars