You Are Stronger Than You Know

Toril & Tully Collaboration "Beety Babies" 24 x 36

You are stronger than you know

The rain may drench you to the core,

the winter wind may whisper

that you are not worthy,

the snow and ice may envelope your heart

You are stronger than you know

Beneath your battered form,

your roots grow deep

Reaching for nourishment,

Sustaining you in the drought,

Anchoring you in the flood

so that when the sun shines

you may lean into it and grow

You are stronger than you know.

submitted for Imaginary Garden With Real Toads, Artistic Interpretations With Margaret, Art With Toril

Clouds

In the days when I was your sun
In the time of shared imaginings
We watched white manatees
swim across a sea blue sky

In the days of endless summer
In the time of possibilities
We lay belly down
on the sun bleached pier
and watched bull frogs part the duckweed
singing their anthems of revolution

Your heart
was a crystal
transforming smiles into rainbows
and rainbows into reality

Your laughter
was both wind and windchime
My cause and
my effect
I breathed it like air
Aware of it only by its absence

When you are gone
Time ticks away
minutes, hours, days
Rainbows fade to gray
And the clouds
are just clouds.

submitted for Imaginary Garden With Real Toads, Artistic Interpretations w/Margaret, Simply Beautiful