rise

to live
to rise
to breathe
to witness
to accept
to change
to be
to be
closer to
whole

Another Awakening

You wake up and you realize
you are dying
It doesn't bother you
as much as you would think
You are not dying from illness
or accident at the moment
merely the accretion of days
behind you but dying
is dying nonetheless
You wait for the sun
to peer through the gray
hazy morning but it has
been unable to do so
You put on a sweater
for a little extra warmth
You sit and listen
to nothing at all
to everything at all

To wake and
find oneself
in a calm 
and meditative
peace.

May our spirits rise
to the level of our ideals
and hold us to those standards
which cause us to dream.

Moving languidly
Beat floats into morning air
Do you stir now Dear

your voice in my ear
I begin to dream again
together we rise

Door of Morning

fields of morning beckon
from your bed you rise
do not look for me here
open the door
though the grass I've run
beneathe the canopy of trees
I'll be there waiting
bathing in life 

Rise

I will remember
I must remember
This veiled past
Mistakes and
Intuition
How to walk
Again after so
Many years 
Confined

To Rise

I will rise 
because there is still
life in me

I will rise 
because my will 
is strong

I will rise 
because I must

For Flannery

If everything that rises 

must converge

can it be said that 

everything that descends

must come apart?