Poem a Day for April - 13

Closets are for clothes, they say. They’re also for monsters. The water near the beach is mimicking the curled-up dragon glittering of your green eyes. The sun is reaching down to silence our conversation before it can get too heated. It’s too nice a day, too nice a beach, to ruin it with history books.

Four scars and seven years ago, our forefathers who art in heaven, hollow be their names, trespassed against us. Now we must forgive those we trespass against. Bringing forth a new nation on earth as it is in heaven, giving us our daily bread. Lead us not into liberty’s temptation, and deliver us from the proposition that all men are created equally evil. For thine is the the civil war, testing whether ourselves can long endure, for ever and ever, amended.

Though time marches on, you and I will be here forever, looking at the ocean and daring to be still instead of moving. Daring not to talk. Taking in the ocean and feeling as calm as the gentle lapping near our toes, feeling the surf keep time with the pushing of our hearts. We turn off our engines, listen to the wind, and coast.




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Poem a Day for April - 14

When the needle on your compass starts to spin and you lose your direction, either dive or start digging to find out why. Each promise shipped to you for christmas that got there by easter will tell you that time is not an illusion. If that were the case, there would be no such thing as too late. Find those gems lodged deep inside you, deeper than your heart, deeper than your past. Find out why your compass is spinning and pull that reason to the surface.

When you've got a hold of it, look at what it uses for balance. Look at how it sees the world. Figure out what it's always wanted. See how it has always fit into you. Let it examine you in return. Achieve an understanding. When you put it back, it will be changed. The end result will change you, too. You will be different.

Using your different eyes, look at the steady needle of the compass that no longer spins. Head in that direction, especially if it goes uphill.





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