Hide and Seek Haiku

Where will you hide, Love?
Under which rock will you wait?
I will turn them all.

Silent Haiku

What is left to say? 

Sometimes we lose those we love. 

Life still must go on. 

Notes to a Prodigal

If 

you are reading this, 

darling- 

when 

(I hope) 

you read this,

remember: 

the same moon 

that watches you 

still dances across 

my sky. 

And the breeze 

that now whispers 

across your cheek

first teased the back 

of my neck, 

and the oceans

are deep 

and blue 

and wild 

on both coasts. 

I've Been Burnt By You Before

So I will rid myself of you:

pull you-

cleverly hiding- 

from my skin, 

scrape you 

from my fingernails, 

wash you 

down the drain. 

For too long I have lived 

under your spell, 

but now I am clean and 

pink and 

new. 

Untitled

I'm giving up on getting 

everything I ever dreamed, 

the stars I reached for shine 

a little farther than they seemed, 

and maybe it is selfish to think 

happiness decreed, 

but I will never give up loving you.

I'm letting go of wishes 

that I held too dear to name, 

hoping that my children 

never have to do the same,

praying for them courage 

and a spirit that's untamed, 

but I will never give up loving you. 

I'm making peace with making beds 

and sleeping in them nightly, 

with biting tongues and swallowing 

my words through throats closed tightly. 

I'm turning all my scars into some 

thing you will think more sightly, 

but I will never give up loving you. 

World Environment Day

I had 

galaxies inside me 

but you 

had stopped searching the stars 

long ago.

My oceans 

held multitudes, 

but you 

never learned to fish.