Darkwood

I want to make dinner
I want to cook meat
and vegetables
and bake bread
then

I want to break bread
laugh and eat and talk
perhaps play cards
around a long, loud
darkwood dining table.

why
does that feel
like such a wild dream?

Just A Shadow

Our stories are related
but they are different

the point of telling my story
is not to drown out the sound of yours
so I never raise my voice

my presence was never meant
to cast a shadow on you
so I always stand to the side

but the point of telling my story
is to tell

MY

story

it is your responsibility
to tell yours

so one day when you can tell your story
without screaming it
like trying to silence mine,

perhaps I can stand in your light
without fading away
like I am just a shadow.