A candle flickers.

The burning flame, erratic.

Love fading away.

Thinking about ants

moving in and setting up house.

Free-loading tenants.

The door won’t open

Without a key. Who has it?

The keymaster grins.

Coffee cup steaming

Rising, with the morning sun.

All good things in time.

Bored silly tonight
Thoughts scattered like tumbleweed
Across the desert.

Tired, too, just bone tired.
Wish I had a shoulder to
rest on, to count on.

My own is all I
have, the only one I can trust
Not to betray me.

The elusive smile

Found it’s way back to my heart.

Joy comes from within.

Birds circling above

Slip-sliding on waves unseen

Dancing with sunbeams