they are human mockingbirds instead of songs, they mimic words nothing pretty, nothing nice nothing new the same old vice always males who want attention spouting nastiness I cannot mention they yell and scream they cry and shout when things go south they sulk and pout let’s make a rule that changes things and tell the pols they all must sing no talk like feathered songsters on my walks tio stib
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walk with me
I hear her softly plead
come
walk with me
and so I rise and go
take the hand that isn’t there
feel the joy in her smile
the smile only my heart can see
hear the memory of her gleeful calls
her waves to passing children
as she scampers to greet them
hugging close
faces glowing in the morning sun
a gentle breeze caresses us
sitting on our seaside bench
I kiss her tenderly
taste the love upon her lips
inhale the sweet scent of her soul
embrace the grace that made us one
blessed us
touching the emptiness beside me
tears slide down my cheeks
come
I plead
walk with me
and I rise again
move on
walking with my lover’s ghost
tio stib
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she never questioned never paused simply poured her endless love into my life now she sits without her mind and I give back tio stib You might also enjoy: My Dementia Diary; Symphony vs. Stanza
Ego is upset today I wouldn’t let him out to play sometimes he thinks he is the king and disagrees with everything he worships his own point of view scoffs at ideas that are new at his worst he’s quite the boor and then I shove him out the door now locked away inside my mind I hope he will become more kind tio stib You might also enjoy: High on Gratitude; Control Freaking
walking through a cloud of grey the beginning of a quiet day I felt a tickle on my face a soft caress, a moment’s grace and smiled as I was gently kissed by the tender morning mist tio stib You might also enjoy: A Child’s Smile, If
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when my back aches there’s a pill to ease the pain when I start sneezing there’s a pill for allergies but when I’m trapped in urban loneliness when my soul cries out for wildness for freedom screams to be lost in Nature’s oneness back in the immensity of desert silence standing in awe on a mountaintop dancing with waves crashing on a wild beach then I need a wilderness pill a medicine that smells of campfires that tastes of Springtime meadow flowers that reverberates with coyotes howling at the rising moon but my heart knows this easy out can’t begin to feed the hunger it’s time to get out get away time to be on the loose again tio stib You might also enjoy: Sorely Needing Wilderness; Which Mountain to Climb
at first you think that’s strange she must be distracted the repeated question the forgotten moment it’s just not her but things keep happening shoes on wrong feet pants on backwards toilet paper wadded up in drawers she can’t count to ten she wants to walk over to mom’s house but mom lives in a another country the oddities keep coming building and now after days weeks months of little deaths she sits vacant wordless gone tio stib You might also enjoy: Walking With My Lover’s Ghost; This child Who Once Was Woman
the grocery clerk who bags my things the coffee man who sometimes sings postman, gardener, neighbors too stopping by with how are you? all the lovely people who lift me on my way their nods, their smiles, their greetings that brighten up each day and as I lay my head to rest my heart full, I must confess my simple life is richly blessed tio stib You might also enjoy: Over the Rainbow; Because Once, I Was Loved by You
open she said holding the spoon in front of the silent face open she said softly looking into the empty eyes the eyes that once so dearly loved her the lips parted the spoon slipped in the food swallowed automatically empty she set the bowl aside gently wiped the mouth the mouth that once had said I love you bending down she ran her fingers through the greying hair inhaled the scent of innocence pressing her lips against her mother’s head she kissed the child she’d never had tio stib You might also enjoy: A Trail of Hearts; A Child’s Smile
Travels with Tio 