Your Inner Tree

-------Your Inner Tree-------

From the middle

of a little

seed

Calls, to all,

the Inner 

Tree,

"My friend, my friend

remember

me".

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Unto Others

-------Unto Others-------

Judge one and be judged.

Love 

and be loved.

You are a great, crystal ocean

wide open and moonlit

collecting every single drop

You have ever

helped

to make.

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Empty Light

-------Empty Light-------

Down this river potion

  intangible

feeling

  broken.

Black is white

  and nothing is

every thing

  and empty

light.

  Without 

a word

  Hero falls

her soft, red lips

  the humble call.

Welcome change

  greet the night

every thing

  and empty

light.

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Thirty Springs

-------Thirty Springs-------

Imprinted within me

are generations of colored people.

Beneath the skin, 

pressed like footsteps into mud 

before the frost.

I am not white, but human;

flawed by 

judgement,

beautiful by the courage 

to leave it.

For thirty Springs 

the earth has thawed around me,

taking back every step 

but leaving whole 

the memory of walking.

Through empathy and crystalline heaves

the lines between here

and them 

and the past

disappear.

We are each a moment 

in the ever-changing.

A colorful

fleeting child 

of the seasons.

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Forget Me

-------Forget Me-------

Forget me.

Hold on to the light we shared,

but forget

me.

Remember the kiss and

the sounds of that evening

when the noise disappeared.

But forget me.

Remember how the world opened up all around us

and that feeling of falling into a place unknown,

a place so beautiful.

But forget me.

I am just a moment you once saw yourself in,

a memory 

upon your lips,

And forever 

the promise that Love 

is somewhere very, 

   very near.

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