Saturday, September 17, 2016

Mercy

For throwing me across the room,
I forgive you.
For knocking my glasses off my face,
I forgive you.
For the ripped pictures and the fierce arguments and the empty weight I carry in my heart,
I forgive you all this.
For the nights full of worry and the gnawing doubt,
For the many lessons I had to learn
by crying them out,
For the merciless hand that I dealt myself, too,
toward all this,
I must face the truth.
And the cruelty you can no longer
inflict on me
ceases to matter,
when I grant myself the power I have always had--
to forgive you. 

~

RNH

Monday, September 12, 2016

on the surface

navigating the loneliness,
a canoe in still water
glides perfectly calm, only rocks
in the breeze, back and forth
on the lies, words
that ripple, like lightning
through a tree
the boat tips then
recovers, moves on.

~

RNH

Potential

Standing outside the impermeable wall,
You look up 
And ask the sky, how
Will I achieve
Anything from this low,
Forsaken place ?
And the sky replies, how
Did you build the wall ??

~

RNH

Friday, September 9, 2016

The Wallet

exposed as a thief, a purposeful
conquest, this crime scene
burns
with white lights and yellow tape
and the only false witness
who could change death to instant
rebirth, waits
with his truth in the lost
and found.

~

RNH

Friday, September 2, 2016

gumball diamond

only the rigidity keeps you from bouncing
over obstacles, still intact
your persona, sparkles
pulsing, like a million
thrown diamonds, a trinket
from the gumball machine.

~

RNH