Self-encouragement

Think not of the past
Dwell not on failures

For the sun shines anew each day
Each raindrop is like a new birth

Each breath, a new start
No effort predestined to fail

Fight the inertia of fatal thought
Resist the cocoon's crafty pull

Daring to tread is more important
than getting each step right

And muddy paths record
resolute imprints

It's the trudging ever
forward that counts

Osteomusings

 

Will I outlive my bones
or is their fate
to outlive me
defy
their fleshy wrapper’s
decay and
ever more porous
birdlike
fly my soul away
to pierce the stratosphere
as eagles do
and disappear?

Till such time
they’ll walk me
around
hold me erect
hoist
propel me
body and spirit
till I’ve danced my last
cumbia
in Zumba class
and the music and I
are no more.