A Healing Time

Easing my heart is 

            a healing time 

when life inside seems 

  separate from life without. 

To cry inside 

  when work demands a smile.  

To want to scream aloud 

  when only words will do. 

To want to rage and pace 

  when calmness feels so much better. 

A healing time needs all of these things ~ 

  an ebb and a flow, 

a wild tide and a calm sea

Easing my heart is a healing time.

“Our way is not soft grass; it’s a mountain path with lots of rocks. 

But it goes upwards, forward, toward the sun.”

~ Dr. Ruth Westheimer, (1928~ 2024)

No Time

Getting on with day to day 

is merely a foot on the floor

 a cup of coffee, no worries 

about whether age matters. 

The joints may be creaky, 

the constant jabber on TV 

selling  pills and adult diapers 

is annoying and the calendar 

tells me where I slide on 

the continuum birth to death. 

I have little time for those details. 

That’s one of the rabbit holes 

too deep for me when

I have bills to pay and 

bread to bake; 

my family, working, living, 

going to school, having fun, 

is my joy and love ~ So,

I do have time for getting on 

with each day in front of me.

“Nothing can dim the light that shines from within.”

~ Maya Angelou

Nicely Done!

Nicely done!

Said with a smile 

when a task is complete 

with ease and efficiency

but it is those tasks done 

with steady on until the end

that definitely deserve a smile

and those little two words:

Nicely done!

“You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.”

~ Babe Ruth

(1895 ~ 1948)