Quieting

Beautiful

There was something

beautiful

in allowing life

to fall

quiet for a moment —

allowing the surface

to not be

as my mind

would have it.

I understood

most deeply,

in the quiet times,

the value in following

my heart —

even if it whispered

subtly,

without words —

even if it was

my only connection

on earth —

even if it led

to just one meaningful

thought.

Unsorted

Forgotten

As if by candlelight

and following

a whispered prayer,

I set out

to find my heart again.

Determined as I was

to mark the path,

I held that light

a little higher

somewhere along the way.

And in that instant,

it seemed it wasn’t

that we had strayed

so far,

but that we had forgotten

we could change

the lighting

of this place.