A collection of poems coping with the juxtaposition of grief and beauty, pain and nostalgia, heart ache and celebrations. From breakups to losing a child, a parent, a friend, a sibling, I hope this little collection of poems helps someone out there...
"Do you remember when we would stay up until the stars would start to blend on a color palette until the sky was a perfect paint-by-number picture? We talked about the worlds we would discover when we grew up until the sun came up and we aged with it?"
"Do you remember what it was like when a problem could be solved by riding windows down at midnight with the radio playing or driving half-asleep city streets at 4am and watching the world wake up? What if we could untangle the stars and go back to that, for a day, a half-second, a single moment and recapture that joy?"
"How do you chase after joy when it lives in the shadows that flicker on the edge of your vision, and the half-empty streets look like they would rather stay asleep? What do you look for when the world refuses to wake up, when it won't stir even a little? Nothing stays simple and nothing stays the same."
"The stars have become like an old VHS that's so worn, the tape can't be unwound and unstuck anymore, but what do you think nostalgia is? It's a hint of that unwinding, of that old feeling sparked back to life for a brief moment to remind you feelings come and go, and that feeling will come back again. Joy may look different the next time it arrives. Joy may arrive looking different. Joy may arrive in a small face smiling at the world for the first time. Or joy may arrive in the grateful eyes of another who you didn't know needed a little kindness. Or joy may arrive with the first snow of the season, even though last year snow brought sadness with it. Joy may look like a memory that used to bring you pain."
"What do I do with the shadows of joy I see?"
"Watch them. They may be trying to show you where to look."
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