You’re not alone in the pages of this story .. my broken heart is evidence of that I fold the corner to mark the day a day so haunting the day you went away I had to close the book for now time for grieving I’m told I’ve been to where are it’s a secret…

Your past is not the sum of Who you are Great suffering can be endured Be still Take in all the wonders Accept all the goods and the Troubles Cool the hellfire of Stones Look into your own eyes The person becomes real You must feel Meet you where you Are A star from the…

Kindness Compassion Get lost Amongst Yearning Longing Emptiness Not submitting To the screaming The howling Smile Loving I love you Just say it Even if its lost in motion Even if it cannot be heard Dosnt touch The untouchable The moving mass Squirming inside me Moving Waves Smashing on stones Day after day Hour after…

A Rose I know has grown Bloomed Right on zoom A new fountain of life Strength Grace on her face Glows of her youth Light and truth Recovery Healing Stronger A survivor who is Achieving We are seeing and believing We cheer for Rose As she leads Cheerleading Fulfilling love towards happiness and Peace She…

My mind gains quiet With images of colors Red smells like blood Pouring across the floor It was flung to the walls And smeared on the mirror I saw Red is the color of my anger It pulses through my veins It pounds in my heart It bleeds in my brain I shoo it away…

Do you hear it? Better fear it Cherishing faith A great escape Love energy Leads the way How do I know you? Help me you say You can’t get away? Let me show you how Feel the power Hope showers Faith penetrates Through the shadows Showing the soul how To make it through Dark beams…

You know how you can make hope go away, Make your soul grow dim? By denying the kindness within. You can stamp on your dreams And crush them with your heel Every time you feel that spark of light Some of us were trained to do that We were children of fear Who knew that…

Healing work Like a video game Unlocking level by level World by world By certain achievments Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Fighting monsters To reach the special door At the end of this level Failing Restarting Failing Restarting For every try Small progress Improved skills To fight the monsters Finally reaching the door Monsters…

Grateful To love That surounds me Garden Brings insurmountable feasting To my eyes Roses blooming Bees humming Feasting Upon Pollen Bumble bees Hiding deep in the flower Of the artichoke Legs and wings covered In dustings of Pollen Appearing like fairy dust Food for the foreger Swwet corn growing Soon to bring sweetness Untill demolished…

This poem is to Thay (TAY) THICH NHAT HAHN (formerly of) PLUM VILLAGE, Meyrac 47120 Loubes-Bernac FRANCE In his brown eyes, softened by light, and time- I saw my mother’s eyes- It shocked me at first, –this warm familiarity where there should be none– Yet the chimes of his language (Vietnamese) I loved to hear,…