Jan's Poem

ODE TO NANCY

I look to you

My sister

For love and acceptance

Others will judge me

fault me for my ignorance

They cannot see

The soft heart,

So easily wounded

life turned me Inside out

Left me raw, hounded

By unkind memories

I cannot escape the shame

Of a hand-me-down childhood

Because it dwells inside

My muscle, sinew and blood

pressed close to my heart

Are the specters of needy love

That haunt my very being

And leave me as the half light

Behind the dark wall of your vision

Janice Kuykendall

Until Forever

Not always . . . but

what once we were

we are not.

Two people living

in one house

does not mean

they live together.

Minds and hearts

once united

drift apart,

forming a chasm

that may become

unbridgeable.

Like the end of day

or season

darkness grows.

Does it just drift

on to oblivion?

Ron Kuykendall

Jan's Poem

Loneliness

Lost in the world 

One little girl

Needing someone

Emptiness abounds

Looking for traces

In in this sea of faces

No one there

Empty spaces

So little care

So little love

Janice Kuykendall 

Ron's Poem

The Bridge

Over time

two people

living together

become

strangers,

separated 

by resentments

and bitterness.

A barrier

of grudges

builds and

becomes

wider and wider,

separated by

a rickety bridge

of obligations,

does love

Still exist?

Can the bridge

Be crossed?

Ron Kuykendall