Share Your Sadness

Joy is found

       in every

                       Christmassy winter snow.

What you seek to find

              is hidden deep inside

your melancholy pride.

The sadness may spark

         beauty in a world so dark.

       Know, your willingness to pay

it forward for a day

     could hand the hopeless

a new heart of gold.

In the unknown we see

a face for each story untold.

We find the willingness to give

to those with lives tough to live.

So, Share Your Sadness

with those who seek 

new beginnings 

              and times less bleak.

I Am Not Alone!

I am not who I once was.

I am awake to the truth 

of bitter mistakes.

Let go-

how I would love to let go

but the memory

of wayward wrongdoing

digs deep within,

burrowing in my brain.

You have grown old

-withered like an unwatered houseplant.

See, I am not like you

                        I am outside in the weather,

and the sun, and the rain

                                   and the rocky terrain:

They were my friends,

              when, on you, I could not depend.

I Am Not Alone!