SWEEPING AWAY DEBRIS FROM EXCERPTS OF HAPPINESS

Written sometime in 2009 in Cardiff by the Sea, CA on Cambridge Street to be exact. Ocean view....

SWEEPING AWAY DEBRIS FROM EXCERPTS OF HAPPINESS

Julie Gengo 

Sweeping away debris from excerpts of happiness

Past experience plays note to moments of now

All the while tripped up by images of incompetence

Holding on to a dream and reasons why

Like trying to catch raindrops on your tongue

One by one

Where to now?

A harbor of pieces of not wanting to do this

Acceptance feels like being stranded in desert sands

Under scorching rays of energy

Hope sinks asunder

Where rainbows exist only in the oasis of the mind

The trees lend unwitting solace between branches

And leaves flicker bouncing light through window pains

Glass separates the colors of wash-away footprints

Stuck in stone

Over time

And Now is diminished as angels flee

So fast

So vigorous

Their ephemeral nature dissolved forever

Sometimes you look up

The sky begins to show signs of surrender

To circumstance and reason

Why we hold on to these days

Is blistering thunder on its last clash?

A serenity of where we need to be