Daily Troubles – By Kelly D. Tolman

Posted by admin on January 23, 2009

The daily troubles of bills and gardens

Often bubble, nervous, up the listing drain

Whereon the moss hangs. Home? Hearth?

A furnace belching warmth. Carries, not

Alone, the cost, the ever inflating cost of growth.

Growing children, sprouting chores, children,

Loves, lives. Each taxes, leeches, begs, and we

Owing all, ever give. Until empty fills the breach.

Empty covers the dark. Empty warms the heart.

Empty where the passion fled for a gentler part.

Turning does not cease the strife nor lessen

The ever present grief. Flight delays, lies,

But gains no victory. Even hope must be slain

Before her horrid onslaught. Debt cankers,

Love chokes, distance grows, without healing.

Where then? Where lies salvation? In truth,

Only by fleeing from flight. Stand, face

The mirror that stares angry back. Build up today.

No trial withstands time. Let time bring peace

And carry forth tomorrow brighter than yesteryear.