hello

hello

i very quietly, gradually & then suddenly became

an entirely different person:

the person i always was

& the person i never allowed myself to be

not a single person noticed

especially those closest to me

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i believe that if you were here

you would be the one to notice

you knew everything all along

& that is the entirely different me

the person i always was

& the person i never allowed myself to be

summer poem

summer poem

i love you like the world is blue

& temperamental storms

finger tips & ocean view

the way butterflies swarm

if lightning can part the sky

& blink against the night

i can whisper why & try

to see you in that sudden light

i call out to summer moons

that waver in darkness & heat

thunder is a comforting tune

a Siren’s song that we again can meet

i love you like the world is blue

& temperamental storms

i believe in incantations chanted true

& the way your hand my heart warms

i love you like the world is blue

& temperamental storms

so to mountain tops i climb for you

where i offer this summer poem

what if roses had no briars

& forests had no fires

& humans had no liars

& in the din of driving rain & wind

everyone could hear me shouting