How many words

How many words

Have been used

In search of favour

Tales of brave butterflies

Cocooned as infants

Survivors of famine

Children of privilege

Choosing a tablet

Grousing at the lack of colour

Rose gold is not an option

The grateful are not dead

When truth is told

A sense of worth

Can be distended

Pricked by conscience

Bubbles are burst

Even as they are blown

Nothing is known

Before it is proven

Love is more than

A hot flush

A fitful dream

An unrequited need

A germinating seed

Life is more than a sojourn

In a charabanc

With no destination

Other than the mystery

Of a blind alley

And occasional detour

To temper the blood

With the patience of Job

How many times

Do I need to fail

Before I find the combination

To open the door

Of my sealed heart

And finally release

My sleeping butterfly.

Wednesday 26th of May.

Are we compelled to act

Is that what it means

To be human

Am I enriched by degree

As a link in a chain

Of indeterminate length

When the gears turn

The idle race

Unto completion

It is a matter of conjecture

That we will know

The meaning of success

Is not to plant a flag

On the highest peak

There is always

Another one around the corner

But to recognise

When to pause

And lend a hand

To those who may have fallen

Foul of overreaching

There is no recognition

Worth more than

Self-acceptance

Nobody spills the beans

Until it is all but late

The route you travel

Is less important

Than the connections made

Why you make them

And what you find

With mindful observation

A good heart

And the curiosity of a cat,

Along the way.