Acceptance~

Acceptance is a collection

of sighs, tears, and felicity;

a tiny engraved saucer,

cracked and fragile at first,

that hardens over time.

Fleeting Changes~

How quick it is your day can change,

From sunlit skies to splattering rain,

From solitude to neon lights,

From peals of laughter into tears,

From buoyant grins to numbing chills.

Regret

As a somber graying raven,

Borne of endless forked paths,

Clawing mercilessly at your mind,

An inescapable despair

That haunts your solitary thoughts.

As a darkening stain of ink,

An indelible spot of murky black,

It soaks itself deep inside,

Impossible to be erased.

As an old, rusting nail,

It pins its point down deep within,

Lodging its roots in crevices

Where laughter, love, and light...

They'll never reach, though they may try.

So regret, that hideous, twisted claw,

Wraps its arms around your heart

And stays, a deadweight in your chest.

♧ Mother's Quartet ♧

Here comes a wind

Borne of the north,

A breezy sign

Of darkened days.

Here springs a sprig

Of lavender,

A violet promise

Of sunlit hope.

Here bursts a ray of light

That seeps through every broken mind,

A tiny golden fragment

Of all the colors in the wind.

Here drifts a crimson leaf

That floats past greying window panes;

A part of not-yet-here but almost-there

Of winding roads untraveled.