I believe in thwarting the devil
The bits and pieces of dark that drag into my day
I used to battle them mightily
Use force and sheer will to get them out of my way
But now I befriend them, it works so much better
From acceptance, I find I have much more sway
This real sense of
Being deeply inside
My actual life
(Inchoate as it may be)
Astounds and grounds me
I’ve longed for this
For so long
I may as well
Be living in Paradise
It’s a long haul
The distance from
Young adulthood to
Middle age
I’m leaving my baggage on the side of the road
No need to take it any further
Time to lighten my load
Head out again, open and free
No looking back, just good memories to hold
Frigid?
No darling, I think not.
I just don’t want you.
“I can do that,” she thought.
And as other thoughts began to churn in her mind – self-recriminations, doubts, fears – she made the decision then and there to follow only the quietest of them all.
And just like that, she was off on a new life-road from which she would never look back.
There is a world within
Where past and future meet
I go there to explore
Hear history in my heartbeat
Everyone that ever was
I am connected to through breath
In future others’ I’ll live on
Long after my body’s death
Beyond the Skinny Branches 