Playing Favorites                         

By Kaitlin Johnson

Healthy souls

Roam restlessly

Grim smiles accompany

The faces

Sharp-toothed grins

Sing

Of their silent glory                      

Yet –

glory is not present

Because the healthy

Are dying

And leaving no trace

Of themselves

            But because they are

They go to heaven

But because they aren’t

            They have unhappy lives

Here.

Change is possible, barely

             But now……….

Sharp-toothed grins

            Sing

            Of their silent glory.

As I Walk Along the Bank of the Smooth Sided Stream

As I Walk Along the Bank of the Smooth Sided Stream

By Kaitlin Johnson

As I walk along the bank of the smooth sided stream

I carefully feel the wind as it blows gently at my hair

I feel the eyes of the egret, beginning a soft gentle gleam

In the corner of my eye, I can see the warm kindness resting there

The wind is singing, the wind is singing

The sky feels so clean and proud

The bell floating in the sky keeps ringing

The reeds rushing so loud, so loud, the reeds rushing so loud

The water in the stream is so clear,

Past the rocks it soars

Drawing near drawing near

The sparkle slowly laps at the shores

Forever giving

It will forever be living