open space

too much cold

too much snow

too much winter

02/04/2022                                    j.g.l.

How would you know
which way to go
with the wind
always pushing
you back?

How do you feel
when you can see
it’s not real, or
do you
even wonder?

Do you?

Do you know?

Do you care?

Do you?

02/01/2022                                   j.g.l.

What happened?

My memory is
less precise but
more emotional
than what I can
ever remember.

More tears after
all these years,
with less time
to figure it all out.

01/28/2022                                         j.g.l.

Winter soaks to the marrow
along graffiti-stained alleys
and soulless office towers.
   We know, we feel frost
as it creeps and creaks into
joints of the middle-aged,
the chronic or careless.
   Cold will come tonight; or
tomorrow; now it is what it is,
and you within our climate.
   No mystery. Why or how
is there or now. Perception.
Reality. Reaction. Temperature
drops like market stocks.
   We know. We feel.

01/25/2022                                    j.g.l.

Peace is all I have
to offer today.
No promises.
No obligations,
just peaceful thoughts
wherever you are.

01/14/2022                                  j.g.l.