@drifting_words
DANCE
Done in the hallway for the length of one song / A small joy taken completely on credit
WORTH
What you carry inside you has a value no market ever named / Once you know your own worth, you stop selling it at a discount
PATH
Puddles in the same place every time it rains / All the familiar trees marking the distance
CHEER
Carried on the voices of the many / Here to meet the one who nearly quit
MIRTH
Mostly found when plans go sideways / Inside the laughter of old friends
GLOW
Giving off a light you did not know was in you is not rare / Living long enough in darkness shows you what you carry
BASE
Beneath the visible achievement is the invisible preparation / A strong position is built long before you need to stand on it
CLING
Clinging to what will not stay makes the leaving harder than it needs to be / Love that lets go at the right moment is the most mature love
SKY
Still above everything that tries to reach it / Keeping every bird it ever held in memory
TRAIN
Ten minutes on the platform in light drizzle / Rain having decided to make it interesting
BLISS
Bathing in a light that has no name / Letting go of every weight
PHOTO
Propped on the windowsill and slowly fading / Held up to the light to see the faces better
WORTH
What you carry inside you has a value no market ever named / Once you know your own worth, you stop selling it at a discount
PEACE
Pulling inward to the wordless center / Each breath becoming simpler and more full
CHILD
Careful with a broken thing they found outside / Homework spread across the wrong table
PEACE
Pause long enough to hear what conflict drowns away / Even the still pond has a current moving under it
EDGE
Every boundary you approach teaches you what you are made of / Distance from the center is where new understanding starts
RAGE
Raw as the wound that no one thought to ask / All the seasons of dismissal rise at once
CLOCK
Caught myself watching it for the third time / Looking away and back and it hasn’t moved
TREE
This one has been here since before the road / Roots holding the bank above the river
STORM
Slow to come and faster going than expected / The morning after brighter than usual
GLOW
Giving off a light you did not know was in you is not rare / Living long enough in darkness shows you what you carry
RAGE
Reaching a temperature past what you planned / A fury that you didn't know you owned
BIKE
Basket full of bags from the Saturday market / Into the wind with a resigned squint
ROSE
Rising on the trellis past the window / One bloom surviving into late October
MEAL
Monday and the same soup returns / Everyone eating from the same pot tonight
CLAIM
Calling what is yours by name is a kind of courage / Living as though you deserve what you want changes everything
HAPPY
Here is where the lightness lives / A warmth that needs no reason
GENTLE
Giving the world a softer edge / Every sharpness set aside for now
TOWN
The bakery that stays the same decade after decade / Old posters still up from months ago
CLIFF
Climbing down it you discover how it was made / Lines of different time in the exposed face
ADORE
A softness rising at the thought of you / Drawing close without a reason
PEAK
Patience is what it took to get this high / Every breath up here costs a little more
FAITH
Finding footing in the fog / Ascending past what reason sees
LEAF
Loosening from the branch on a cold October day / Every color it holds was always in it
SOUL
Soft and old and deeper than any name you’ve given it, the soul persists / Often what you feel in the quiet that follows the noise is the soul’s opinion
FAITH
Feeling your way forward when the visible path has disappeared takes trust / Acting on what you cannot prove yet is how the unprovable becomes real
FOND
Far across the years a warmth persists / Of someone who is gone but still close
CORAL
Created by the smallest of the living / Over a thousand years it builds a mountain
SKY
So many blues before the first star appears / Keeping the light long after the sun is gone
MOON
Moving the ocean without touching it / Over the frozen field it casts no warmth
WAVE
Winding up from somewhere past the horizon / And arriving here as if we were the reason
SONG
Stuck in the head since the morning commute / Only the tune not the title or the words
MIST
Moving in off the water before sunrise / It is both the thing and the hiding of it
BRAVE
Before the act, the fear comes first / Rising through it is the only path
DESK
Done for the day and still sitting here / Everything at an angle that only made sense today
LAMP
Lamp on and everything else made secondary / A habit now to reach for it at dusk
GLEE
Grinning wide at nothing in particular / Leaping through the ordinary day
VALE
Very still when the morning mist is in it / A sheltered fold the hills have made for quiet
HUMAN
How much we share beneath the differences we name / Under every stranger is a story close to your own