One step forward, three steps back I jump forward twice to catch up the slack Up and down and all around The path once lost is once again found I keep going until I’m told That is success, I have reached my goal  

Here comes the sun Poking my eyeballs Let me sleep again

At sixteen, my life was marching band. Such precision was mandatory, Such stamina was obligatory.   The band was my family, much better than home. Camaraderie was unbreakable. Esprit de corps was inevitable.   Feelings I never knew before.  

There is no amount of water that could extinguish the Fire inside I have for you the flames lick the corners of my ribcage warming every cell a spark, turned into a flame, turned into an out of control wild fire, that I hope burns…

As though the cells of my body have transitioned to another place, translated into a future me I do not yet recognize, my mind stumbles clumsily behind, aching to be reunited. I float within this space, gathering wool round the edges of my tiny universe,…

Ever so often In the wisp of a moment I hear a faint whisper Ever so often In the mystery of the day I feel a soft touch Ever so often When life seems so down I feel a sudden rush pull me Ever so…

The hardest part is starting i approach most things half heartedly unless it involves my kids they are the epicenter of activities my firestarter   we did our first race as a family our first hillside our first mountain climb our first car ride across…

A long hard road, lay ahead of me. I didn’t know how long it was, I didn’t know when it would end. So I kept walking through the forages cutting past my doubts facing my fears, all the while Dealing with the reality of the…

In a TARDIS If I could but in a TARDIS go Across all time and space I’d not regret the friends I’d leave Or the loss of any place What wonders I could witness then! What sights I could then see! Planets and moons and…

A stony,cracky road forward, I waited for my bus, eagerly,without a blink of eyes. A stray dog by my side, he looked at me, with intense love and hope. A piece of biscuit, left out of which what I ate, I threw it to him….