Focus

Wherein lies the value

Of your focused energy?

Will it bring joy, peace, love?

Serenity?

Will it improve the life of a child?

Enlighten the beguiled?

Soothe the wild?

Will it offer civility or increase good will?

If not,

Why

Are you

So

Focused?

Cycling, Again

Again.

Jangled.

Rankled.

Out of  sync.

Out of sorts.

Viewing the world

Through lenses of distortion;

Feeling feelings

One cannot explain.

Questioning thoughts, relationships, motives, decisions.

Is this what it’s like to be insane?

How to re-contain?

Maintain?

Stop the pain?

Again?

Starting Out

Early 1980′s.

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Dollar bills in a large manila envelope

Marked ‘Entertainment’

Added up to a dinner out.

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Coupons clipped

Met the grocery budget.

***

Dented, dinged or damaged.

They worked.

We could afford them.

***

Fifteen bucks a week

Paid for lunch, gas & incidentals.

***

Saving for Christmas

$10 at a time.

***

Date Night = Dairy Queen.

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We created a team,

Relied on one another.

What a wonderful way to start out.

Love’s Longevity

Diminished?

No.

The passion born at 17 & 18 continues still.

It is different.

More tolerant, patient, less emergent.

The heart’s swell prompted by conversation,

Attitude,

And angle,

As much as bodily beauty and the scent of cologne mixed with yours.

Memories and fulfilled expectations create an ambiance

Of romance, companionship, fun.

We’ve aged together,

Created a partnership ebbing and flowing and moving with the current

Rage or fad or challenge.

Always,

Love’s longevity keeps us afloat.

Mothers & Daughters

Mothers and Daughters.

Basic parts of a whole,

bundled together

through biology, legality, or fate.

Electrical charges that attract and repel,

each occasionally losing a piece of themselves.

And those emitted particles change

the dynamics,

the energy,

the exchange.

Engaged in a quantum-physics dance,

Mothers and Daughters

embrace, repel

complement, contradict

nurture, antagonize

support, oppose

ADORE.

Electrically charged, this relationship.

Always reconnecting, the fortunate ones.

Radiating LOVE.

Mothers

And

Daughters.

Precious, blessed science.