Counting

If I pour out my complaint
there are more stars than I can count
and yet
there is more of your love
than measure
while the shadows dance
outside my window.
Prayer changes me
Music lifts
so I turn and tune in
listen for the faint Breathe
that opens the universe
bends the shape of things
unsaid
there is a plan
He lets me in

Lost In the Neighborhood

He didn’t give the address
I am lost in the neighborhood
With just a mapquest
Which doesn’t always tell the truth about
The whereabouts of anyone else
You leave your info uploaded on your iphone
I reoriented again, I remember when
There wasn’t any distance
And I phone beneath the tree lined streets
Everybody’s out
My front door is unlocked so
Another son can dry his clothes at the house
He meets me on the front step instead
wants a hug
while a new blond friend tells her mom we’ve bonded
I watch her carefully through the lens
While all the pretty girls faces hurt from smiling
I slip into my place and still am out of place
But trying
Still this pain inside
While all the pretty girl’s faces hurt from smiling
Still this pain inside