Completely Incomplete

Completely  Incomplete 

Dear God, please see that I remain

Completely incomplete,

As any rose, that craves cool rain

In summer's blazing heat.

And though, to battle must I go

In armor, cold and   grey,

Please see, dear God that soft and kind 

And warm  my heart  remains

And though  I dare not  cry, in fright,

When lighting strikes, alone at night,

Please let my arms stand ready,

To bring  hope and strength and light  .

And please dear God, this  most of all,

-Though a fortress must stand fast and  tall-

Please, keep me gentle, keep me small

And  shine through me, to one and all.

Please let me stay as you intend

A graceful doe, until the end,

A women made with loving hands, 

To nurture  life, to bring forth man. 

 Cinderella Salmonella

( Sung to the tune of "Jingle Bells") 

Wash your hands, wash your hands
Each time you use the loo,
Or Cling-ons can contaminate
Your surfaces and  food


E. Coli is a little bug
That cows have in their  gut,
If some gets inside your food
You'll bloody poop  a lot

Watch that chopped meat,
Wash your eggs and pasteurize your milk,
Alphalpha sprouts and lettuce heads
Can cause e.coli chills


If two weeks have passed and then                                          e. coli 
There's fever aches and pains,
Weakness, cramping, and fatigue
It might just be   Hep   A.

Raw meat, poultry fish and  eggs
To these you should say "no!"
If you want to not get sick,
First bake that cookie dough!





Beauty, grace and fragile shoes
All go with Cinderella,
But  Fever, nausea belly  ache
Can come from   Salmonella.

Jacuzzi  pools can be so cool
Unless some unclean fella
Climbed  inside to shared with you
A bit of his shigella

Flies are vectors for this bug
They go from poop to food,
Spreading  bitty piec-ies
Of contaminated feces


Summertime's for canning peas
And storing homemade jam,
Careful that you boil it well
And boil it again.

Cause botulism toxins can be neat
For smoothing out your face
But paralyzing and agonizing
in a central place.

So...wash your hands, cook that food,
Keep utensils clean
Food born bugs can be avoided, 
Now you know  what I mean...

Complete

 

You scream and cry
 And pound your fists,

The rain pours down
And melts my kiss.

 Your eyes are blurred
With loss and grief,
 With salty screaming tears,
 like thieves,

That steal your vision,
Fill your heart,
 Until there's nothing
 Left apart.

And I, like all things,
 Fade away,
 Into the dark
 That ends your day.

 

 " I'm here," I shout,
Over the storm,
"Can't you see me?
Take me home!"

 Thunder rumbles
 'Round your head
 Lightening strikes
And I lay dead.

 And as my spirit
 Takes last flight,
 I whisper gently,
"You were right."

 

And there did you stay, there, completely alone

Holding my  hand that was cold as a stone

Wondering why  being right felt so wrong.


And asking yourself Is the prize worth the cost?
 
And where is  your heart,

Now that nothings been lost?

And now that you've won,

Shouldn't everything  change?

As again you choke  helplessly

Drowning in  shame.

Wondering  in circles,

Around the last fight,

Trying hard to remember

Just what made you right.



And  knowing you'd traded

Compassion for pride;

Made sweet love to  your self,

 As I faded from  sight.

And the horror engulfed you

'Till you couldn't  breath,

Gasping,  desperate for meaning,

You dropped to your knees.

 Crying  out to the heavens

With  heart rending  screams,

 Over and over,

With ragged torn dreams.


Until  grief had   broken

Your head open wide,

And an ocean of  tears

Did rush  out like a  tide.

 
When finally   empty,

Purged of  false pride

Your eyes beheld truth

'Neath  the  desperate lies.

And your heart simply melted,

Flowing out through each eye,

And you fell to your knees

Begging stars  moon and the sky.


Groping  for reason

Far  greater than this,

You found peace in complexity,

Truth, in my kiss.

And slowly I stirred

Waking up from deep sleep,

Reaching out  to  the hand,

That was reaching for me.

I look in the eyes

As deep as  the sea

And saw, for the first time,

The man who sees  me.


You're  the one that  I've longed for

the man from my dreams

 As I draw you  inside,

And exhale. I'm  complete.