Category: Family

  • safety pin

    I am a safe place
    I stand against
    Bigotry
    Misogyny 
    Homophobia 
    Indifference 
    Ignorance 
    Hatred
    I am a safe place
    I am a woman
    I am a man
    I am young
    I am old
    In love 
    Of peace
    For justice
    About honor
    I am a safe place
    I am ready
    To defend you
    The other
    The different
    The innocent
    The immigrant
    My neighbor 
    My friend
    I am a safe place
    For your wives
    For your daughters
    For your husbands
    For your sons
    Fathers
    Mothers 
    Friends
    Others
    I am your safe place
  • thanksgiving blessing

    May those gathered around this table
    be at peace with each other
    forgiving and embracing forgiveness
    giving thanks and accepting thankfulness,
    loving and cherishing love
    and may the bounty set before us
    the bliss felt in this moment
    and the beauty of our love
    give us strength as we commit
    to bring this peace to the world
  • something new

    in a new pair of shoes or moving rhubarb to a sunnier location and shopping for new glasses (I really wanted round ones) it's obsessively obvious that I like change though that's not entirely true because I actually love it as long as I think the change is for the better or at least status quo in terms of making a difference even though there is some comfort in the routine things of life like plum blossoms and paychecks and smoothies and sunrises I have to say that not being able to change the every day on any day makes me think of wanting to part my head from my body so I can be free from the monotony of the endless rote happening around me although I know a bodyless head and a headless body would also get boring as well as being fairly ineffective so I keep some of the rut walking going while I let my imagination leave my sensibilities every moment I can and before the path I'm on gets too deep in the ground from the terminal back and forth I jump out and dance for a bit in the sun
  • in the still

    I sense a voice from time to time
    that the breathless still offers me
    A simple observation to my mind,
    A thought that only I perceive.
    It whispers underneath the quiet din:
    "Tell them what they need to know."
    "Just what is that?", I ask and then
    Silence wraps my heart and soul.
    That's all there is to the short exchange.
    I find perplexing, with curious walls
    Of audible grafitti that set the stage
    Where over again the small voice calls.
    So I live my simple life and love
    Friends and family far and near
    In the hope that one day knowledge flows
    To tell me all and make pathways clear.
    Tonight though, as I lay in my bed
    Between the worlds of thoughts and dreams,
    I thought I heard a voice that said:
    "Your life well lived is what they need."
  • dad vows

    I promise
    to lovingly hold you until you can crawl,
    crawl patiently with you until you can walk,
    walk peacefully with you until you run,
    joyfully run with you as long as I can.
    And when I can no longer keep up,
    I'll still run, walk or even crawl to you
    if you need me to hold you again.