June 30, 2008

  • Latest poem

    Wrote this in the Marriott in San Diego last Wednesday.  The Health Educator's conference was only two days, but it felt like a week.  I sat down that night to write my paper, but in the end I wrote only this.  Ah well.  Some things just have to be written or they'll just float around up there bugging me.  There was another one that was vying to get written too, but this one won out.  I'll have the other one soon.  Enjoy.

    The Mail (1st Draft - working title)

    The pile sits--
    The box might as well be empty.

    The litany of mindless arguments
    Threaten either to make me pay
    Or make me pay
    For things gotten or things to get.

    But the only one I want
    Remains unsaid--unbegotten
    By its absence.

    A few scrawled lines:
    A breath of hope,
    Stamped and sealed
    by your lips.

    A silent testimony of thoughts
    Breathed by your heart to mine:
    A kiss of souls.

    Preempting instant message, I wait--
    Paying for nothing.