Month: June 2018

My Best

Give 100% and you’ve no where to go

60%?

“No way, too low”

40% and you’re off the scale

10%? Hanging on by a nail

30%?

Yea, that’ll do…

If you’re frail and starving or struck down by flu

There’s always 50, the happy between

For the average, make doers, not large but not lean

80% gets a tap on the head

And 20% gets our arse outta bed

90%, that seems pretty high…

“Can’t push for 100?? Tut tut, oh my”

70 then, that’ll have to do

“70 might, at a push, get you through”

1%, 12 or 103!

What number grades best when I’m just being me?

That Vase

There’s a voice I heard once

When I put my ear to that vase

A scream I thought at first

Then a whimper

A song that trailed into a prayer

Or the other way around

A voice I’d not heard before

Until now, remembering that vase

I hear the tides

The mermaids

The witches finger that tickled my earlobe

As they did that day

And I’m not sure if life was ever the same after that

Or if life stayed the same but my eyes viewed differently

Or maybe I just listened more

Because the more I listen

The deeper I see

And in those depths

The volume of silence gets really deafening

And as I loosen my grip on noise

The unknown unravels

And maybe that vase

Was the beginning of my unravelling

Or maybe

I just heard myself more vividly within starry stained glass walls

It’s all a little strange, isn’t it

No matter what I write

Is nonsensical to someone

So the upside down

Of the mermaids tail

And the witches breath

And the starry glass

Are all mine

Until I listen to a bigger vase.

Sister, I See You

Sister, I see you

I have done all along

I’ve stood under the stars you dream

Your woes are in my song.

I see the woman you’ve become

Perfection, that’s you now

No questions need to haunt your heart

Of when or where or how.

For all of that, the heavy doubt

The worries you hold true

Shall flow behind courageous blood

The sacred light in you.

For sister, you have hidden deep

A wisdom like no other

As from you born, not just a child

But warrior and mother.