What we have gained - what have we lost?

This is the success we came for
  seen in the clothes we wear
   the bags
    the shoes
     the glasses
      the smokes and the hats and hair

But not in the eyes
  the heart has cost

What we have gained
   what have we lost?

  Gornisht helfn 

Thanks to The Mag

Mourn not Eve

I'm not tempting Adam

there's no serpent in the tree

I'm the one who saw the fruit

that's waiting there for me

I'll let no angry angel

exile me from my share

I'm staying in the garden

my rightful place is there

A jealous god would banish

and hold his knowledge fast

but not the loving goddess

her wisdom spread will last

Thanks to The Mag

Spring

Not just the frost leaving nor the ice heaving
Not just the leaf burst nor the birdsong
Not even the warm breeze all the day long
No
The fragrance of your sun warmed hair
The feelings under blue sky ours to share
Plans for the future if we dare

In all the springs to come
Will you be there?

Thanks to The Mag

One direction

Life has been difficult but I wish to be strong.  I wear black but I do not wish to mourn.  I am told that nothing will change but I seek something new. I cannot move on blindly so I reflect, trying to come back to myself.

Why then, when I reflect, do I not return but instead see myself moving away?

Thanks to The Mag.

Palm Sunday

Even in my days of most vehement condemnation of religion, I found this musical and this number very moving.

First bedroom

 

I remember that crack

frosted

in the corner

south window

catching the lights

of passing cars

late at night

freezing bedroom

alone

wondering

what really exists

out there

Thanks to the Toads