Caffeine Courage

Caffeine Courage

Sometime during that first cup

the noble pursuits, long lists, and courage arrive,

then slowly retreat into a warm, thick, comforting blanket.

As I rise they wrap me, yet disintegrate

bit by bit, with each breath I take.

At mid day the clatter and commotion

takes full hold and 

I stand defenseless, with only this

battered shield and a very weak arm of truth.

The stabs become too much and I withdraw again,

back to the siren calls of greed, desire and distraction.

They don me with a new cover,
like an emperor's new clothes, invisible, thin
and instantly dissolving.

Only the darkness lets me feel safe,

and so it goes each day, until dawn.

Then again, sometime during that first cup ...

Together, We

Together, We

I was all you are now, when I was.

I felt all those things

and saw all those sights.

I lived just like you, and 

dreamed of never-ending days.

But that's all changed now.

I no longer feel and I see no sights.

I am locked in eternity's dream.

Breath deep.  Breath slow.

Bring to mind what I was

and what you are now.

Realize there is no difference.

I dream of you 

and you dream of me.

Together, We.