salted with sorrow,
spiced with happiness,
a new day begins

embroidering life
with the threads of happiness
and tears - my patch quilt

when the sadness comes,
stay with it and hold its hand
until it is ready to walk away
with peace

stop touching the wound
or it will never heal - let
the scar tissue build -
love unreciprocated -
stop picking at the thoughts

bon voyage my friend
for I may never see you
again - I miss you

trolls hiding behind
their screens throwing bile - don't bite
and feed their ego

thinking of something to
write - I try too hard - empty
page and empty mind