Sticky Messes

Br'er Rabbit me
still tries to best Tar Baby
still gets caught up
in the emotional mess
as an ego-maniacal half-wit
when the best approach
is to not approach,
as if staying out reach
and staying out of touch
were one-in-the same
as running like hell
in another direction.
But as a gluttonous masochist
two, maybe three, times each year
I'll stand within reach
and swing away. No.
That is not letting go.

The Ripple Effect

a grain of sand
cannot enter the water
without creating a ripple
and she is more than that
and I am more
than I might have been
because of her entrance
into my life
her ripple having moved through me
and lapped every shore

A Wish

Have you been there?
Somewhere so far removed
and there by choice
yet you'd give anything
to be back where you are now.
Oh, I so have
and on return found it to be
something other
than what I'd left behind
and as wishing for a better past
can not make things so
I think I'll stay put now.