in my dreams

There are times when I’m dreaming where you show up. I realize I’m asleep when that happens. I always have to leave you because I know it’s not you. How can I dream of you? I can’t even fathom you. What I see are the poems and prayers from long ago. An incomplete...

everyone else is moving

Have you ever been on a road trip where you see those white windmills in a stretch of open land? Hundreds of them are spinning slowly but then there is one holding completely still. That sight is the only way I can describe how I...

a thought 8/31/19

Have you ever said a word over and over again until it doesn’t sound real? I have that feeling about myself sometimes. I need to look in the mirror to make sure I’m still...

from the first words you wrote

“Someday” I once thought to myself, “Someday I’ll fall in love with a pretty girl with long blonde hair and ice blue eyes. She’ll have a charming laugh and a cute little nose. I hope she will stay by my side. She’ll be smart too and full of dreams for everything we...

fever dreams

It started as a dream. A slow waltz in the midnight air. Illuminated by a full moon and the glimmer in her eyes. I was lost in her light. A smile of stars in the sky. Kissed by the chill of winter’s frost. Heated by passion’s flame inside. Oh what a dream it was. To...