Thursday, February 10, 2022

Wednesday Evening

Make friends with what’s inside you. 

The delight with this juicy

orange and the way

its sweetness wanders 

down your chin. 

This savoring of friendships, old, 

new and in-between, rich conversation

blossoming on a coffeehouse deck. 

That longing for first hand 

knowledge with what some call the divine,

others the inexplicable-mysterious-

beautiful mundane.

Those huge wind turbines

peppered along a desert highway,

rotating behemoths gathering 

boatloads of air while scraping

endless sky.

The younger elements within you,

sometimes wobbly, unsure

if they’re up to the task at hand.

These angers, those sorrows, 

happy surprises, celebrations,

let-downs and griefs, jumping 

off roofs and all kinds

of mischief, this smiling inside 

where a hidden cellist

plucks his beautiful strings

and music is king.

Dreaming, the kind that happens

in night's half-buried middle 

and usually dissolves 

like smoke upon waking.

Yes. Make friends with it all.

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