@river_song
DREAM
Daring to imagine is the first act of the real / Real things begin where the impossible once lived
FAITH
Footsteps into what you cannot see / All you carry forward is the wanting
FIELD
Foxes crossing at the far end in the grey / In the late July heat the combine starts
DAWN
Dim room and the first bus running outside / Awake without an alarm and staying still
MOON
Making the path across the water silver / Of all the night it is the most awake
GOAL
Going toward something specific makes the going feel like sense / Only a direction gives the motion something to become
SWEET
Something soft inside the ordinary / Where kindness lands without a reason
SOFT
Softness is not weakness, it is strength that chose not to harden / Often what the world calls tender is what lasts the very longest
SEND
Something you carry was meant to move beyond you into the world / Every gift withheld is a loss that touches more than just you
WORTH
Whenever you act as though you matter, you begin to make it more true / Only the self that claims its worth can offer it usefully to others
CALM
Counting breaths until they slow / A stillness found beneath the noise
DAWN
Darkness giving way in the quietest possible way / Arriving before any demand or obligation does
TENDER
Touching carefully the fragile thing / Every gesture soft and slow
BUILD
Becoming the thing you want to be is a project of many small days / Unless you are willing to be imperfect while building, you never build
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
DESK
Done for the day and still sitting here / Everything at an angle that only made sense today
LEAF
Lying face down in the autumn puddle / Each rib still visible through the thin paper
PINE
Planted long ago now taller than the house / Its roots the depth of everything we know
DIARY
December pages always more detailed somehow / Ink slightly different in the entries after the move
UNEASE
Underneath the normal, something shifts / Nothing quite sits where it used to
LEAF
Left on the surface of the pond all night / Eventually the water takes it under
AWE
A silence falls before the vast / When beauty overwhelms the mind
MEAL
Making do with what is left in the fridge / Every plate cleared before anyone speaks
SLEEP
Somewhere between awake and nowhere / Last thought always the most random
TIME
The past is just a door that you no longer need / In every ending, something new is taking root
ASCEND
A long way up is still the way if up is where you need to go / Slowly, the one who keeps going passes all who stopped to question
FOND
Finding old warmth in a sudden memory / On the tip of tongue the name of someone dear
SKY
Stretching further than any thought can reach / Keeping nothing and losing nothing either
LONELY
Looking for a voice that knows your name / Only echoes in the house tonight
CALM
Counting breaths until they slow / A stillness found beneath the noise
FATE
Finding meaning in what seemed like accident before / All paths narrow to the one you finally take
DIARY
Dated and dog-eared and slightly swollen / Ink that ran when the tea cup was too close
WALK
Wet shoes and worth it for the air / Around the back of the park where it’s quieter
GRIEF
Going on means carrying them with you / Remembering is the only way to keep them
LUNCH
Later than planned but still welcome / Usually the same thing on Wednesdays
ATONE
Acknowledging the harm and moving toward repair is not weakness / Taking responsibility for what was done clears a space for what comes next
BLOOM
Breaking through the soil before the frost has gone / Lavender and white against the winter mud
ELATE
Every cell inside you lifts at once / Light pours in from somewhere new
LUNCH
Leftover rice reheated and improved somehow / Under an hour and trying to make it feel like more
GRACE
Going forward past the stumble / Rising from the place where you fell down
DIARY
December pages always more detailed somehow / Ink slightly different in the entries after the move
FEEL
Feeling is the oldest and most accurate instrument you have / Every emotion carries information, even the uncomfortable ones
BLISS
Beyond the reaching and the wanting / Landing in a moment that is whole
CAFE
Coffee cooling while the page is being read / Afternoon stretched into something generous
ZEAL
Zeroing in on what the world most needs / Each action taken with the full heart
BOOK
Back from the shelf it’s been on for a year / Open again like picking up a conversation
GLEE
Getting lost inside the moment / Loose with joy and moving freely
APART
A distance between two things creates the space for understanding / Pulling back is sometimes how you see the shape of what you love
DREAM
Dark house and I knew where everything was / Running through it and recognizing nothing
TRUE
Tell me, even if it shakes the ground beneath us / Real things take a little time to find their shape