Closure
January 28, 2009
Finally
A little closure.
I feel better,
Don’t you?
And while the heart is calm
The book hasn’t yet ended.
Pages are still being written
And there are many chapters
Still to come.
The search for closure
Isn’t so much a desire
To reach the end of the book,
But rather a need
To be at peace with the storyline,
And that I am.
~wbv
The Same Page
January 6, 2009
You might think that we’re on the same page
But I doubt it.
You look at the page numbers
And assume that everything is okay.
Do the page numbers really mean anything?
Can you render an interpretation from a number?
If the story were told on paper, maybe,
But not when the story is told in the heart.
Do you want “us” to be on the same page?
Then tear the book into pieces
Rip the pages to shreads
And scatter them on the ground before us
Ignore the chapters
Ignore the page numbers
Ignore the paragraphs and sentences
But save the words
And when we have a heap of words and paper
Spread out in front of us, We can quietly dance
across the bed of mixed meaning,
And with any luck, for a brief moment,
we will be on the same page.
~wbv
