I Accept All Your Promises

(for hour 13—from the rainbow image prompt)   I Accept All Your Promises   Of all those counted up like random lists petty humans try to track, how can I choose which pledge is most meaningful?   Of more than three thousand spoken to assure…

Gone.

Out of touch for years, Randy never made a class reunion couldn’t be located; only child, his mother dead father presumed so years before Randy never married, had no kids A few of us tried; mail, Christmas cards returned, undeliverable, no forwarding one day a…

Missing, Presumed Dead

Ed is an old man. One hundred and seven  years old Number one hundred and seven on the list Coincidence? Long since dead. The median missing person from Michigan From Centerline, Michigan Coincidence? Argued with his wife Front door should be open No closed. He…

I’m already gone

Bold steps mark my wake down this chosen path. A path that few do take, yet fewer ever last. Fear and doubt guard either side and wait patiently. For that single slip of rejection that comes eventually.   This path is harsh and filled with peril….