noble themes

I connect to your world failing exactly at those points where we are most alike. I see myself in you, and you in me and there’s the hitch: I see you So I am hard on you Because I understand, but I understand too well. Even though you know that the popular ones are stupid and petty, you say you want to be like them anyway, though with more intelligence and it evades you as to what it takes to be liked. And I know and remember and cringe; So stand up and be you So in the mean time pained where I was shamed the same. when it should be me who delivers grace. I nudge you to do more, try more, be more- though I am keenly aware that there is a better way that alludes me; And last night when we crashed when I insisted you go to the church group because I know it is a place where you can meet friends who can truly know you and so that you can know more of God but you refused Because you say you know that the cliques are set and you always fall outside but wish you didn’t; But you would i...

I worry about you as I am away at work; I must work but I would rather be      there, with you. And so I worry that you will fall      and I won't be there      to kiss your knee I worry that I cannot control      all that happens to you. And I worry that the contours of your face      will change           as I am away from you                and you will slip from my fingers                     without me letting you know that I worry about you.