Poem: Change

Change arrives with quiet feet,rearranging rooms inside the heart.It asks us to loosen our gripon names we gave to who we were. Some days it feels like winter—branches stripped bare against the sky,every familiar thing made distant,every comfort learning how to leave. We resist because memory is warm.Because certainty tastes like home.Because becoming someone newmeans … Continue reading Poem: Change

Poem: Live

Live your lifewith one shoe untiedand one polished bright. Pay your bills on time,but still stop to stareat puddles holding the sky. Learn how to carrythe weight of hard dayswithout forgettinghow to chase fireflies. Be adult enoughto apologize first,to stay when things get difficult,to build a table sturdy enoughfor others to rest upon. But be … Continue reading Poem: Live

Poem: Time Slips Through Your Fingers

Time slips through your fingerslike water you swear you can hold—cold for a second,gone the next. You watch it in quiet places:steam lifting from coffee,dust turning gold in late afternoon light,a song ending before you noticeyou were listening. There was a dayyou thought summer would last forever.Now entire years collapseinto the smell of rainand the … Continue reading Poem: Time Slips Through Your Fingers

Poem: Too Much to Do

The clock hums loudlike a restless machine,minutes slipping throughmy overfilled hands. Emails bloomlike weeds in spring,laundry waits in tired heaps,and the dishes leanlike a skyline after rain. Every taskcalls my name at once—small alarms ringinginside my chest. I make listsjust to survive the day,cross one thing outand three more appear,hydra-headed and grinning. Outside,the world keeps … Continue reading Poem: Too Much to Do