Wind and Springs

Beds in rooms
Rooms in houses
or apartments
The silence of solitude
Thoughts welling
A spring bursting through
Bubbling and making itself known
How peaceful will these winds be
How powerful will be the storm
The winds have arrived
Now we ready
for the onslaught

Ribcage Cracked and Spread

My heart is open
and it is bleeding

Like a scalpel 
through my skin

Like my sternum 
cracked open

Like my ribs
spread apart

Like my stunned heart
beating in the air

I will not forget 
the scars

I will remember 
and I will fight

Until life rescinds
its gift