Rising sun looks down
On a world in warmth growing
Smiles at the change
Tag: change
Empathy
It’s our job to read hearts
All the anger and the pain
But oh, how inconvenient
When we can’t turn it off again
Portentous
It’s a day of new beginnings
One might say endings too
I may just end it fleeing
Or embracing something new.
Weather Alert
Why are you a storm,
And I am only me?
I did not always feel the need to run
At the threat of your company.
Now I find high ground;
Now I seek for shelter.
Did I change from who I was?
Are you just trying to find her?
Or is it you that’s different,
And a bunker’s only just?
It is wrong to wish a tornado
Would turn back to a pleasant gust?
Unknown
There’s too much pain
For too little reason
And too much emptiness too
Oh, to take a train
Leave for a season
But it’s nothing I know how to do
The World
If you could un-invent something, what would it be?
Damien Reich met tragedy as a child. His mother had died giving birth to him. His father was executed for treason when Damien was only ten years old. And then, crying one night on the orphanage floor, he met someone else.
He met an angel.
The angel told Damien not to tell anyone. He told Damien he wasn’t supposed to reveal himself. He told Damien about all the rules of Heaven, and the nature of the Earth. The angel told him many things he shouldn’t have.
When Damien Reich was grown, he started a war against good. He won.
Origami
Days and weeks of origami
Folding in upon myself
Will I be nothing when I’m done with me
Or the thousandth crane upon your shelf?
F is for Effort
A new start is just continuance
Of the efforts of yesterday
Only when I make some
Will they be here to stay.
Choices
It isn’t asking
What you want
It isn’t revealed plain
It isn’t put in italics
It doesn’t wax or wane
It’s here, in every moment
Every tiny thing
Each excuse is only yours
And one of what I mean.
Unending
Who would stop at one?
No rebelling daughter;
Not a loving son.
There’s no end to imperfections,
And once you start with the corrections,
You are never done.
Writer In Retrospect 