The sun is always rising from your pocket.
A song is ever frolicking in your hair.
The ground is perpetually dancing beneath your feet.
Delight is incessantly playing in your eyes.
And in shimmery rays of glory,
the color of life is forever found in you.
© 2023 Michelle Cook
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*Sunshine – the light given off by the star around which the planet Earth revolves.
(My daughter… you are this light).
The boy lived
With the hopes of wine
Something soothing
Something sublime
The boy hoped
For the love of her
Something different
Something sure
The boy loved
All the ease she brought
Something beautiful
Something sought
The boy eased
Into the life she rendered
Something exquisite
Something surrendered
The boy lived
Without the doubt he’d held
Something changed
Something expelled
The boy doubted
All the world would see
Something splendid
Something free
The boy whirled
With the joy he’d acquired
Something unexpected
Something required
© 2023 Michelle Cook
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You find me in
the busy of day;
no matter how
you find a way.
A brief moment
to send a kiss,
it’s the kind of thing
you never miss.
Every opportunity
you seek me out
and oh, the love
I feel throughout.
Even now,
while you’re asleep,
I feel your love
in dreams so deep.
Connected by
a force unknown;
you’ve become
my one true home.
© 2023 Michelle Cook
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Do you ever wonder why things
can’t be as they were
Time always changes things
and causes such a stir
People eventually change
and that’s because everyone grows
still I miss the old ways
and change I do oppose
I miss when my kids were little
the times of simple bliss
now the world has gotten so hectic
everything’s amiss.
I struggle with the here and now
and the moments way back then
still knowing I’d never want to do
all those years again
As great as they really were
life was hard then too
I guess I need to remember that
whenever I’m feeling blue
One never really thinks
about the day their children will leave
and it’s sad when they forget you
It’s something you forever grieve
I know my very own parents
probably feel the exact same way
but the distance makes it harder
and so we drift away.
And friends are difficult to follow
everyone’s here and there
but there’s only one of me
though I’d love to be everywhere
And now that I am older
I find myself learning to be still
sinking into the background
not looking for a thrill
Still I am very happy
and maybe more content than most
but very humbly I say that
for I’d never want to boast
I do enjoy my life though
and yet some days are still so sad
but they’re few and far between
and for that I’m really glad
And today I’m just reflecting
missing those who’ve gone afar
and I think I’ve come to accept
I have to leave them where they are
© 2023 Michelle Cook
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Sometimes,
you might feel like
hurling yourself
at the moon.
Others times,
you might wanna
just sit quietly
under the stars.
But no matter where
you find yourself…
Just know
that the stars
will never forget
the wishes you made.
And the moon
will never misrecollect
that crestfallen look
upon your face.
Because even when
the world disremembers,
the cosmos still counts
every tear it ever created.
© 2023 Michelle Cook
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