for stockholm

You’re a city
and I’m looking at you -
finding you beautiful.

But it must be said,
you’re a city,
not a human being.
And that is why we can never be.

Sometimes it’s difficult to forsee
the consequences of patience.
But dear Stockholm,
you’re showing me how to wait.

snow is cold, friendship is warm

sometimes i wonder what sort of heart i am building.

new places, new people
getting to a place of near understanding
only to leave.
any sort of community that could have been -
covered with a blanket of snow
on to something new.

... snow is good,
but it is also cold.

it's not that there's anything to run from
yet a schedule tells me it's time to go.
i don't know how much more i can handle.
yet somehow
new places will arrive
and we will find ourselves welcomed;
people become friends.

...finding friendship can be a challenge,
but once found it is warm.

Dear Lord, might you bring some insulation from this biting cold?

5:17 PM

O, for someone just to take me, saying,
"Here, I understand you!
Don't worry about explaining yourself
or what you are doing.
I know where you're at."

and it's true
You are already present
patiently adjacent, uttering words
i haven't yet paused to hear.

if i could only stop
long enough to hear You singing over me,
surely i would find
priorities changing.

...i just need a bit of help to begin.

KEF-CPH-FAE

i'm crossing oceans and oceans and oceans and airwaves with You.

...and i'm learning more about what i don't need.

aqui.

here.
this is where I'll be
when you're found pulling yourself apart.

questioning abandonment
"no no no, I am very much with you."

tomorrow is a good hope to have,
but today is also right here.
find Me where I am.
here.

going home

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i'll soon be reaching a snowy seattle.

are these multiple duffels necessary,
or is it all just extra baggage?

peace out kona,
and a mele kalikimaka to you.

procrastinating nearness

do i chose to find You now,
or am i just waiting
for later?
two weeks lingering
i don't know if i've made this all that it could have been.
above
constellations continue on;
while below,
i think there's so much to be done.
don't let me pass beauty by-
because something that is very ripe
could easily become rotten.

"i feel close to You here."
"just remember
that this is where I am
your whole day through."

surely now is the place You can be found.