
Gotta wait and see
How the day flows
If it turns into meaning
Or if her unrest grows
Gotta look at the
Big picture over time
Can’t focus on the moment
Or it stops on a dime
©Ashley Castle Barnes
Awaken. Heal. Lead.
Gotta wait and see
How the day flows
If it turns into meaning
Or if her unrest grows
Gotta look at the
Big picture over time
Can’t focus on the moment
Or it stops on a dime
©Ashley Castle Barnes
Like rain, ideas flow
Seeping into her roots
And nourishing her soil
Until life bursts forth
Through the rocky terrain
And sparkling with dew
She rises
©Ashley Castle Barnes
She’s peeling back the layers
Piled on across lifetimes
Within a life
Constructed to protect
And keep her safe yet subdued
Her full potential
Her impact
Blocked
This unraveling
Her greatest shift yet
©Ashley Castle Barnes
When the picture on the wall hangs slightly askew
The dog is bark, bark, barking in the yard
That one tendril that can’t – no won’t- stay tucked
Tickles her eye again
Reminding her that the future is as uncertain
As driving in fog through the mountains at night
She writes her focus
Her dreams, her future
Into existence
©Ashley Castle Barnes
She feels the crackling
Crumbling like rice paper
Brittle, thin, and opaque
Reluctant to reveal fresh, pink skin
In a too-harsh world
©Ashley Castle Barnes
Forged through detritus
And winter’s chill
This sadness grows new pathways
And excavates the light
Shines through the budding green
Of her newly formed dreams
Reminding her that deep feelings bloom
Wherever love is planted
©Ashley Castle Barnes
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