Out Here
Know what Shoulda, Coulda and Woulda did?
Nothing.
Let’s go.
-Chuy
Nothing
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Precious
Timeless
Thoughts and words come easily now.
Things we did not want to think, nor me to say.
It is this most gracious and wonderous gift you have bestowed upon me:
To have valued our time as precious.
Love always,
Paz
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Outbound
Real World
You must be out in this world if you wish to truly know it.
Come on!
-Chuy
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Doors
Blizzard of 2010
My preference: leave the door open.
Chuy
Improvement
Shadows Walk
It’s like Jack Nicholson said to Helen Hunt in As Good As It Gets.
“You make me want to be a better person.”
I can never thank you enough, dear friend.
Paz
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Gift
Perro Linda
The finest gift I ever received
Did not come from a store.
It wasn’t a thing I’d “always wanted”.
Or replacement for that which I’d had before.
It came to me without wrappings.
No boxes or bags, no ribbon or bow.
Where something never existed before,
It started small and continued to grow.
Given without ceremony or occasion,
No holiday or celebration of birth.
No commencement or wedding.
No brand names to declare its worth.
It was not given lightly.
No gag gift or last-minute buy.
Nor was it sized precisely to fit,
In fact it is as big as the sky.
The giver is now departed,
Though his gift remains intact.
It perseveres from beyond the grave.
One must not overlook this fact.
It enriches my life daily,
Even to this day.
Though given many years ago,
It never fades away.
It was your gift of love and kinship,
Stretched across so many years,
From the truest friend I will ever know,
Whose loyal spirit now dries my tears.
- Paz
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Pinnacle
Lilies of The Field
Remember these Tiger Lilies,
This thick underbrush,
This hazy morning.
This Pinnacle Day.
-Chuy
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Silence
Heavenly Hill
Embrace silence.
Not the sorrow born of isolation,
But the
Serenity born of
Solitude.
-Chuy
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Reality
Summer Morning
Haven’t you learned this already?
Those things are not real.
The trees, the rain, this trail, me.
These are real.
Ditch that other stuff.
-Chuy
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Waiting Game
Temple
I watched you push your painted, half-filled heart up the hill,
Place it on a staff and wave it high
For all to see.
I saw you stumble when tragedy rent your days
Like sails in the hurricane,
How your knees fell atop your emblazoned flag
And crushed it like a grape.
I felt the pain you carried like a rucksack lashed to your chest.
Saw the way you lifted it in front of your eyes until
You could no longer see the path.
I waited patiently, years perhaps if I knew of time.
Until finally you noticed me.
Watching, feeling, seeing, waiting.
Until you found a place to set down your pack
Long enough for us to climb this hill,
Together.
-Chuy
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