fingers tip tap against the table
in search of what comes next
not folded neatly and waiting
but eager to tear things up
waiting isn’t always needed
sometimes the best way forward
is tip tapping away daily at
your future
Fears
Courage isn’t the absence of fear. It’s being afraid and doing it anyway.
Shadows leap and lift
from the ground. While
the world spins on a tilt.
I’m still trying to figure out
how.
Dolls sink and turn colors
while deep in the closet
something whines. Still,
she can think of
only one thing,
How can I make this
thing divine?
Saschia Johnson
Twitchy
The covers
her beneath
Thickets
bugs and things
more wild
she wades through
bryers
as if they were ocean
Saschia Johnson
I Choose You
I’m choosing you
Your health
your smile
Your hand
I’m going to take you places
planes, bars with all the fresh vegetables you can eat,
and kombucha on tap
served by souls who just wanna make you smile
the way I do
I’m choosing you.
If this life is the life you love
with all your heart,
I’ve done my job.
and I’ve done it well
if it’s not,
fuck it, let’s keep going until
it’s everything you dreamed of,
and more.
Saschia Johnson
Cycles
The snow will return
But for now,
the sun is shining.
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Steadfast
I want to be here
I want to be here till the sea dries up
and the heavens brush your lips
To be by your side
to be in your mind
and in between your sheets
can we do this forever?
can we never quit on each other?
Saschia Johnson
Flicker
The curtains blow in the breeze
deep sea blue with white corals
sewn into the bottom
the breeze let’s the light in
the air spins and whirls around
like a merry-go-round
There’s no leaves to kick up
only dust
specs of dust flicker in the sun
she smiles at natures dance
she smiles at me
Saschia Johnson
Adventure
Give the world oysters filled with pearls
and they’ll go to waste
Give the world adventure
and their search for pearls will
never end.
Saschia Johnson
Churned
Churned soil jumps and dances
If you were to ask me,
jumping and dancing is wonderful
when it’s humans doing it
but when the soil
jumps and dances that means
something bigger than us is happening.
Saschia Johnson
A Good Rest
She closes her eyes,
the bed bugs have scuttled off into the woods,
and the moths gathered around her neighbor’s
bug shocking light.
A breeze tickles her nose
so she pulls the blankets up up up
over her shoulders.
She dreams of singing skeletons
and dancing dead men who church
chocolate with small men from
a land no one has ever heard of.
A star falls and grants her wishes
as she sleeps a good sleep
with warm blankets
and dreams to keep her busy
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