Happy Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving


We seat at the table bulging with food
We vow our heads in thanks for yet another holiday
A chance to reunite with friends and family again
To forget this day the woes which erode tranquility


Animated chatter and laughter sets tone for this feast
One says “that’s enough; I have to watch my diabetes!”
That sucks to have so much food, and not be able to enjoy it all
While another eats as if to fill a bottomless void


We eat, until we cannot hold anymore
Or drink into a stupor of oblivion
As one contemplates what is there to be thankful for?
Or how unkind the passage of time can be


How can one feel so alone amid the chatter of people?
Yet later in the evening we are still hungry for more
Acknowledging that we are still orphans
Without someone to truly belong to


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Rain

Rain



Washes the filth away and soaks the earth
Making it fertile and pliant
The pungent scent of satiated earth that’s drank its fill
Assaults my senses, as I deeply inhale

Droplets of water from above
From the shower head those wash my body
Like hot tears rolling down my cheeks
Those redeem my spirit anew

Rain so beautiful to contemplate incumbent
In the folds of a comfortable place
One has a languid tendency to reminisce
Of a particular moment cherished memorable

The same man I found this morning
seated exactly at the same place
I acknowledge him with a passing nod
His desolate eyes framed his dirt-streaked face

I wonder for a moment if perhaps
His reminiscing moments during the relentless rain
Focused on the elusive heat of a warm bed
Or perhaps on the arms which once he embraced


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