Keys

They unlock mysteries 

Open doors of my life

Grant me transport

A portal of freedom

Highways of interest

The jingled in my pocket

Reminders of where I can enter

And protect

Enclosure of self

And now they melt away

A flat released

She has my keys to that future now

And will enjoy it I know

Keys to my employment

Security of livelihood 

An office abandoned to another

Doors previously open

Closed forever to me

Finally my car key

Transportation of freedom

Gone to another 

To find his new freedoms

No jingle now

I lift away

Lightened of the load

All wonderful memories

Life loved

Keys exchanged and changed

The keys of my heart given

To all that I love

And I land again

To build new life

A jingle in my pocket

The first given access

My home

My love

Closing Chapters

These stairs seem so small now

In childhood they were enormous

As tall as my Dad

The real one

They towered above the other

The ornery bastard

Smoked in cahoots

And gone

Thank goodness

Though his spouse leaves me cold

From so far away

She weaves her incantations

Trying to find that spell to draw me near

To her alleged allegiance of falsehood

And gone

From this country much as I

One supposes if contemplating the finish line

Of the new Chapter

As memories fade away

To internet sales schemes

Of bargain hunters and annoying scammers

And the rally around my butterflies

Beginning

Babies and young men vying for attention

Seekers of my already unconditional love

Building stock upon my ledger

It is me of course who wants to remember

To think this is not my demise

But a chapter of their lives

Where I am only gone

Just one minute

Why are you angry

I found a partner and found happiness

While not to our assumed plan

It is to the plan of They who matter

To be revel in joy of another

Even though gone

We technologically logically assimilate

Around small lit screens

And cameras

And we connect with the tools at hand

A love in the glow

Even though apart and gone

I love you all

My heart and body remains bits of each

For family is strongest

This is not a last chapter

This is a linking tome

Passed

And to future

We raise a glass

Pure joy

Well written say we to the Author

And amen

Best Before

The is so much in here unknown

Fruit and vegetables

One lasts forever

The other adjacent all mold

Milk soured as it ages

Still useful

I can bake with it

Hard tack

And bread dried and crusty

The blue green blooms

The jam turns crystal

Coloured sugar shapes

Enticements of rot

Then sudden regrowth

Of vile and ill

The honey lasts forever

So they say

And the nuts will catch up

A slow turn as the essence of oils grow acrid

Wilted leaves

Life

Misused nurture

Ignored

Then off.

It all started well

With best recipes intended

It takes effort for preservation.

Ends and Peaces

The range is amazing

Swings from highs to lows

Euphoric interludes interrupted by butterfly

Kisses from children whose love will never wane

The pride and joy of God’s life gift

Yes I shall miss this place

For founding was forged here

And begrudged stability

I love this place

And I love my people

These are ends

And there are pieces unfinished

Yet peace is found

For God stays watch over me

And has granted me new beginning

A forged partnership

My new life

And she will know me

And know my love for you all

And she will never leave me in pieces

She shares in my love with you

And knows this love must be nurtured

And I will return to you

And you will come to me

We, no ends, all peace.

Containment

Ah yes the cold familiar place where hidden within all feeling disappears to suppress feelings of love and lust and anger and angst of why the attacks continue to the detriment of who we are we are we not the cannot obsessive destruction to cohabitative existence on such a small orb-it around an idea with no fruit that fell to stony ground to fossilize forever in that cold familiar place where peace from all angst of human relationship cannot break through until fertilized again by trusted souls in whom we trust for each other and peace be with you our peace we must find in forget forgive lest we obsess our time away I have been and will not be that again amen to remain me open please do to wait while this runs its course

Slownley

The interminable time and space

Conspired inspired indifference

To hold and to cherish

Forever till we pass

To both sides of our shores

These settlement homes

An admiration of many

We keep routes planted

Why then must we remain so

Prisoners to chronology

Abandoned purposeful to obligation

Completion then beginning

A monarch journey

Touch and cocoon and chrysalis

We miss

Departure sweet sorrows

A bridge to futures

Unknown possibilities

I turn and look to you all

Progeny and progeny faced

We will not good bye

Final glimpse no regret

An example to the adventure

Across the narcissistic pond

My memory with you all

We live lonely expanse

My land is on earth

A migrant from place to place

My footprints touch this space

We renew anew

Avowed from my heart

Two souls found many

We gather the clan

A meld of our hearts

We find peace and solace

We are family

Pity

Forgive me

Really?  But for what?

Your words ring shallow.

You know, just forgive me.

No.  You must say the words

I need to know you know

But I don’t see

Then I cannot forgive.

You do not need forgiveness

You need to feel I am not angry with you

But I am

I cannot forgive you

I will not

Because you have no regret

So I will not forgive

But I will forget

You