Monday, August 18, 2025

Let Me Go

if this is it
then let me go
let me walk the woods
let me stroll the beach

if this is it
let me feel the sunshine
let me hear the birds
let me smell the grass

if this is it
let me be me
and when it's time
just let me go 

Friday, January 3, 2025

Turning Point

a celebration
as it were
a glass or two
a special day

future plans
were on the plate
fears expressed
suggestions made

but now it's clear
this was the end
too much said
yet not enough
 

Friday, December 13, 2024

Home Town

so long away
now returned
familiar ground
but so much change

older structures
since replaced
cherished sites
lost in time

nostalgia now
with sadness mixed
a sense of loss
and some regret

for more than place
a sorrow builds
of human bonds
lost as well

Thursday, July 25, 2024

Still Here

after so many years
the good and the bad
the joy and the pain
the highs and the lows

through youth and vigor
through illness and aging
I am still here
and so are you

Saturday, July 6, 2024

The Trail

we met at a trail
on a summer day
the sky so blue
the air so clear

our path it seemed
would be the same
our mutual goal 
a distant peak

so off we trudged
our packs so light
a steady climb
through fields and wood

the peak ahead
a sunlit dome
til lost behind
the crowded trees

and then we reached
a wall of rock
with several routes
to skirt its mass

so there we split
each choosing one
thinking that
we'd meet above

but we were lost
our paths diverged
and why that choice
I'll never know