Status Updates From Healing Earthquakes

and this gift given me twenty years ago
I now give back as a poem,
as a candle kept lit,
through all the tears and sadnesses,
sometimes unattended and barely giving any light
but always letting go its light
as I let go in giving and compassion for others,
sharing it with others in the night,
to those who dream for peace,
for those who cherish the light,
pass it on.

Love makes so little sense
gives us a dog’s mind and cat’s heart
reduces our lives to wrecked cars
rusting in fields of yellow flowers.