Duet

In a quiet room

 Filled with the calm of honest light

Our thoughts sang a duet over the rain

It was a few deep breaths in the night

That would heal this soul 

for infinite days to come

Risking all

the stinging, inevitable goodbyes

for the chance

to answer the what ifs and whys

for the experience of knowing

something good and extraordinarily true

So while some think us full of crazy

as they continue complicating what remains of time

by holding out for permanence

permanently pondering love in an obscure rhyme

I will hum a tune of a duet I was a part of
when harmony reigned once upon a rainy night

 I spend my hours now

with gratefulness and clarity

and I smile
at all that is beautiful and true

these things I would have never known

 if I never sang with you

Clarity

This post is for this week's GBE2 topic: Clarity

A drop of love

And just like that

My heart has vision

Soul to soul contact

I accepted like charity

now the world is wide open

And I see it all with clarity

All these years I looked

But it wasn’t until my eyes closed tired

That seeing felt so new

And I was glad

 when they opened up to you

My rage

 has become distant

Since I’ve moved closer to love

Your hand scribbled poetry on my page

suddenly my heart no longer

 knows how to act its age

I’m looking at the sky

Like it has never been so blue

I’m seeing a cloud

Like a pillow that comforts two

I was searching for hope

when I tripped over you

and it has never

 felt so good to fall

When heaven doesn’t answer

I’ll sit quiet and wait for your call

~Trish