Goodnight lights
Off to bed
Stories of the day
Drift off in my head
Waltz away from worry
And into the night
Five deep breathes
Everything will be alright
Sleep Mantra
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Short Words
Words today run short
Shorter than days
Longer than moments
In this moment
Give me the words
Predict the Past
Words are moving fast
Faster than I can understand
Competing with the speed of light
Into my head with danger
No understanding needed
People blast out obscenities
With fog horn blasts
Worries about the future
Trying to predict the past
I am not moved quickly with emotion
But in this almost steady flowing river
Into the ocean running
Mud filled water
Sludge
Filling greater waters
To which I barely understand
So I await more news
Uncertainty
Certainly
It will come
What was new
Will quickly become the past
The Old Lifeboat
The challenge of growth on the road
Learning life’s lessons new
Without letting my old life go
Holding my hands to the side
Of this old lifeboat
The longer miles we roam
The further we go
The more we grow
Unknown of the life ahead
One foot in front of the other
Deliberate moves
Keep us alive
In love
Glaze of Sheets
The glaze of icing on the streets
Ice skating in layered sheets
Less than 2 feet of snow
But back to the new cold
The first storm of the winter
Came in thick
With ice brittle
Thinner
I enjoy he cold but stay warm
When the snow is done
I undue my jacket
Relax
Winter is back
The Dawning of the Fall Jacket
The dawning of the fall jacket
An awning of warmth
Feeling the fall creeping in
One evening it’s summer
Throughout the night
Falls moment seizes
It makes its presence swift
Moving in with the new revolving moon
It’s a time of year defined by a subtle change
A change that shifts
Then sets in
And out comes the jacket
The big purses and backpacks
Dawning falls on us softly
And with a blink of an eye
Summers gone
To yet come again
A Cup of Songwriting 