Just Survive

Beneath the dusky twilight sky,
When nothing seemed to cross my mind
When silence passes the space behind 
It often seems I've skipped a rung blind.

Up and out and sinking, seeping,
Memories can serve the warning 
Now it is I who wakes to a dawning
Sunlight most of every morning.

My broken wall which towered high,
From which I stood alive each time,
had some advice upon its stoney base,
Two words for years on: Just Survive..
Just Survive!

Once upon a time it was Winter

A dream..

Our limbs streamed into dawn

leaving trails of light and smoke.

We curled into the air and

no room could hold us.

It started like this..

First I took off my pride,

I wore it like a shawl to shield all my insecurities.

She loved it.

Then I took off my certainty,

It hung around like thousands of uncomfortable memories wound tight

like a knot to hide my ability to be free.

She loved it.

I took off my fear,

It gripped my feet like stone slippers, hoping to keep me from ever leaping

as far as I was capable, often succeeding.

She loved it.

Finally I took off my doubt.

The doubt that was there so long it had become me.

I ripped it off to reveal

the flesh of what I felt and might have, forever.

She didn’t love that..

She then left wearing my clothes

And I started dressing for winter.