Intermission | Nate Maye
A quiet daring stillness
between titanic events
like stirring the air.
Avoided them for 35 years
A person I almost married
Was a cherry eater
We ended badly
Swore them off forever
Till now
Funny how I held a grudge
against a fruit
Enjoying them again
They are dangerous though
The pits
Going slow, enjoying the ride
Be prepared
for bold
new directions
or so
my horoscope
reads
I know the
truth about
life
you are never
completely
prepared for it.
i saw a little leaf whirling in the wind,
didn’t want to fall from the tree
but the leaf keeps falling over,
i prop it up, it falls again .
At the end, the heartbroken leaf
leaves a tear when it falls
and says goodbye to the tree.
Now, the little leaf, reincarnated into the earth
and started its cycle all over again.
Little leaf, the storyteller of our life.
Once there was us
In a swirling miasma
Two beings finding
Each other in
The darkness
A sound heard
Across time
Not able to be ignored
Times spent in delight
Changes coming our way
A wave goodbye
A song unsung