Bigger Bear Series: Endings, Breaking Free and New Beginnings

(Tang Law by Jerson Samson) 

It's a strange feeling, being here and now, at this very moment.  How did we get to this?  How did I get here --- without you? 

The years just flew by  in a blink of an eye.  And I am here, sitting dazed and lost amidst the swirl of memories and feelings.  I am startled by an epiphany:  So much ... and nothing ... has changed.

I am stardust, propelled here and there by the sheer force of your life; disintegrating; inconsequential against the trail you left behind.  

And, for a while that is a lifetime, I stood here rooted where you left me, dying a slow death.  Endings, when left unattended, have a way of numbing everything.

Then there were the jolts; the jolts that woke me from my stupor; the repeated painful jolts that sloughed off the "me" with you.

You are gone.

And I am reborn.

Poetic Dose: Pinto Series

(Art:  Haplos by Mark Justiniani)

Dream Walker

She came to him in dreams 

Always only in dreams;

Of black and white 

That melted into grey;

Then, of deep purple black

Riddled with pinpricks of light;

Of stretches of verdant fields

Flanked by Ents that swayed and danced;

And of gold, bright and then mellow

Resting against blues and salmon hues;

She came to him in dreams

Always only in dreams;

Until her palettes emptied like a raging river

Into a vast and colorless ocean;

And then, once more, 

She came to him in a dream;

To retrieve a drop of amber

Remnant of her heart and soul;

And he 

He remained slumbering ...

As in all the times she came.