Rive Droite

Slow To Move

The consequences of your
actions cannot be foretold,
only guessed at,
isn't that what it boils down to?

Would that stop you
from taking a risk
if what you think is at stake
is attainable happiness?

What about when taking
that risk involves the lives of others?

The signal changes from red
to green, but my foot
won't leave the brake.

Jesus The Mexican Boy

Was It Like This?

I'd like to ask you
what it felt like
when you learned you couldn't stay.

Too late
 to get well
too young and 
 then gone

A younger wife
 a small boy and
a toddler

Left adrift...

There is no us
 out here

You Are My Destiny

Homework

Jack brought an assignment home from Kindergarten having to do with how he got his name.

I suggested the name because it's strong and solid, with a little bit of mischief sprinkled in, and there just aren't enough strong, solid types in this country today.

He had to respond to the following prompt: I think my name is...

And here is his response: Golden like a crown, or a school bus, cheese, or the sun. It feels so yellow!

I know talking about your kids is bad form, and usually deathly boring to those without close blood ties, but I can't help it with this kid.

He's poetry.

In You, Me

A reader in Bangkok and one in Brazil,

I can tell you both that my head is very tired now,

very tired, and I am honored by your visits,

and I am working today with people's needs -

needy people (there are so many of them)

 - ringing and ringing -

everyone's suicidal tonight or addicted to heroin

or living with an abusive boyfriend or coping with

the loss of a child given up for adoption

because life is too crazy living with you

and you understand that.

She is nearly falling apart, shaking in her room.

The story that sustains her is one of a biblical nature

she says, though I am not familiar with it.

God sees two women fighting over a baby and asks,

Who is the child's mother?

Both answer, I am.

God offers to cut the baby in half to settle the dispute

One woman agrees selfishly and the other says no in horror.

Thus the true mother is revealed.

May we all try to help a little where we can.