life – Page 4 – Picking Up Roots

Gardening

hands, stained
with the dark heartbeat
of the Earth,
work in cool dirt 
pulsing with life;

roots - thick and thin -
run in intricate networks,

below the surface
there is so much more

Countdown

another flirtation -
this one enhanced
by the pain
of others -

the unrealized concern -
biding its time
in the dark recesses
of the mind -
finds its way
to the fore;

the sands
of life's hourglass
always fall,
don't take a single grain
for granted;

they do not count up,
only down

Costs

all things cost,
if not dollars,
than space
within the mind;

do you know
what you can
afford