Awkwardly

Please let us
Keep talking

Awkwardly
If we must

Keep sharing our words

Sharing our worlds

Keep hearing
Each other’s

Uncomfortable
Stories
 
Because it’s the silence
That denies
Existence

And the silence
That is literally
Killing us
 
But it’s our words
However clumsy and
Awkwardly formed

That bring us
The warmth of
Community

And point us
In the direction
Of life

Bittersweet Dream

Have you ever had
A bittersweet
Dream
Come true
 
A deep desire 
Put aside
In the name
Of practicality

Somehow revive
And insert itself plainly
Into your life
As if
It has always
Belonged
 
A dream
Not for one minute
Forgotten
But neither
For one minute
Considered possible

A dream
That you are afraid
To reach out and touch
Because it has already
Been mourned

A dream
That turns itself into
A beautiful reality
Bittersweet and
Painful in the beauty
That is brings