He Listens

He listens
Even when he knows the answers
He listens
With patience plainly there to see
His face holds no intolerance
He listens

And when my heart can speak no more
He lets the healing silence be
No need to answer questions posed
He knows the answers lie in me

He doesn't offer platitudes
His comfort lies in quiet air
A safer place I have not found
My burdens left on quiet ground
I always find my comfort there

Where he listens

Extraordinary

She doesn't know the way she adds
to my life
If I were to tell her she wouldn't
understand
She feels so ordinary
When really she's quite grand

At times she's aggravating
No one's perfect after all
Yet I know our time grows
short now
The writings on the wall
And the thought of life
without her
Has me feeling rather small

So for now I am the strong one
The roles have turned around
She was my rock in life's dark times
She was my solid ground

She's still a force, a gentle power
Within my heart she'll always be
my strength
my conscience, my best champion
The best a mom can be

Beauty and Despair

Traveling the road 

Of beauty and despair
A convoluted journey, truth be told
That two such vastly different means 

Of sight and heart
Should blend so seamlessly 

Seems hardly possible
Yet hand in hand 

Through bitter life they go
At times inseparable 

if truth be told

There is a fair beauty 

In despair
A tantalizing anguish  found in 

Shattered dreams

The tormenting destruction 

Of our sweetest hopes
Remnants swirling broken at our feet
Hold fascination for us in the  

Sweet despair

And beauty in the tatters 

Of our dreams

For S

There is sunshine in her smile
with caution round the edges
as if she isn't sure she is safe
and trust is a fragile commodity

She finds value in herself
through love
the loving of her family
the sweet care for her children
They make her whole

She understands her value as
a mother
A wife
Fiercely devoted
Strongly opinionated
Absolutely involved

What she doesn't see
is common to us all
That her value is,
and always has been
in who she is
inside
where no one sees

That is where her
true beauty lies
She is ferociously beautiful
I stand in awe

Random Acts of Brycen-age 4

He will put on my high heeled
open toe sandals and walk around
knowing it's funny
grinning with glee

He will wrap his arm around my neck
and deliver
random kisses
just because he feels like it

He will want all of my attention
and lose his mind
if he doesn't get it

He will ask for whipped cream
squirted right into his mouth
laughing when it overflows

He will ask for turns swinging
with me on the "big swing"
even though it scares him
because he wants to try

He will melt your heart
as easily as the sun
melts snow
Because he is joy
in a little package

Chasing Air

And now I must find my way home
for I've wandered far, far too long
I am disheveled and lost
years chasing a dream
that was never to be
longing to find my way home
if home is still waiting for me

I learned in my wanderings afar
that life is not getting your dreams
for dreams oft lack substance and then
we attain them and find they were air
the things that we wanted weren't there
for places like home are too rare
and all of our loved ones are there

I know I will find my way home
the pull of my hunger is strong
I hunger for loved ones around me
I hunger to feel I belong
And when I arrive there, I'll know
the joy that can only derive
from knowing the safety of love
and home is where love is alive

Oh, I Remember

He stood alone among the crowd
Or so it seemed to me
A careless carefree attitude
Aloof, alluring pensive mood
Creating reserved solitude
or so it seemed to me

I worked to keep him in my view
To garner any telltale sign
of if he was here alone
A profile fit for chiseled stone
Perfection of mere skin and bone
In every sculptured line

My fascination knew no bounds
I stumbled round the growing throng
Unsure of what I hoped to gain
If I could even learn his name
Would fascination still remain
or would it all go wrong

So close I now can hear him speak
His voice is low, yet firm and strong
I search for something smart to say
Before he can wander away
And take the sunlight from my day
I must not wait too long

I hurry forward head held high
I raise my voice in salutation
My eyes are on the final prize
and so miss what before me lies
A table laden with assorted pies
My public humiliation

And so would come an end it seems
To my infatuation
Except to say this man of means
Turned out to be the man
of my dreams
as I sat amid assorted creams
He rose to the occasion

Inner Thoughts

The voices have been so quiet
I feel I'm all alone
There's a peacefulness within me
It's nice to feel alone

At first I felt uneasy
Not used to empty air
And then I felt calmer
being all alone in there

The voices have been so quiet
my thoughts are still and calm
I've room to think more clearly
I'll breathe, then carry on

Family

Gathering people to me
pulling them closer so their
heartbeats drum through my skin
Wrapping my arms around their lives
Gathering them all in
to make a home

Bring your unsung love songs
The dreams you've kept secret
far too long
We'll sing the songs together
and paint your dreams
on a summer sky

And this will be my family
The lonely, the lovely, forgotten or
displaced
The gentle sweet strangers
my loved ones to embrace
I cannot explain why
I gather them to me

Gone

I can't write
I can't think
I can't feel
I can't find my way

I can't smile
I can't cry
I can't breathe
I can't find my way

I can't sing
I can't talk
I can't see
I can't find my way

It's all gone
It's all wrecked
It's all done
It's all gone away

There's no joy
There's no love
There's no hope
It's all gone away

It's all gone away
It's all gone