Today

Mondays, 

she thought, were for new beginnings.  

They were for forgetting the mess of who she was the week before.  

She would sit very straight and shed everything that felt like shadow.  

Every dark spot that said she was a victim of circumstance.  

She would let them fall into her coffee, and swallow them with sugar. 

And at the bottom of her empty cup she'd see a woman she didn't quite recognize.  

Her name is Today. 

14 Words for Love 2014

This year's contributions to the 14 Words for Love Project:




Poetry is
your voice whispering
"Beautiful..."
and my heart hearing it
as if new
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She turned water into wine
and poured herself out
And she'll do it again
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My love,
May you find a woman
worth running after.
Sorry it wasn't me.
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Warm eyes and kind words
Leave little to regret
Let love be these moments
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I wrote love in letters
Poured it in bowls
Tucked it in your pillow
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Most people can get through a day
on just a compliment and a question.
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Love is a six year old
emptying his piggy bank
for kids with cancer
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Love with the intensity of impending death
Few are brave enough
Few are ready
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She asked when
He said wait
But a gypsy doesn't understand
love without urgency
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Someday is an impossible fate
when we are only now
this skin, this moment
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Love comes in degrees
and stays in fragments
Still can't throw away your toothbrush
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For every lonely moment
I have a few good friends
Filling spaces you didn't
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I've lived long enough to know
the difference between
admiration and presence
is love
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Her feet make their own paths
Walking away from apathy 
They run toward love
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I like presence:
words on lips
skin on skin
intention to action.
Now, love.
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My second chances always come
when I have been brave enough to walk away.