Love is building.
Hate is a building torn down,
but love is building.
- Sensefield, "Building"

jamesbickers.com
For Ornette Coleman

Thoughts deserve to be free.

And so, I write down as best I can some other way.

I surprise myself I surprise myself with the times to feel
that which I would not normally allow.
This, after all, is the whole reason I am here.
And I am grateful to have this moment, this breath. to know the difference.
these few meager sentences
You be the judge. But.
words strike me at the oddest times,
talking about the freedom of thoughts,
We are, after all, and how their arrangement
But then again, maybe it is not so surprising.
I let the guard go home early.

with when the goosebumps come.
Thinking, perhaps, that they make sense when assembled
bringing tears when no tears are expected

should be left up to them.

So it should not be a shock when I allow myself

And I am grateful



-11/24/07

 

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