Life

...is the ability to think and believe.

It’s what you feel when you look in the mirror,

and wonder exactly what you’re really looking at.

It’s the observation that takes place,

when you’re not doing anything important.

It’s when you look around and realize,

that life will give you chances and options.

That it is a mystery but not a game,

with only participants and their paths.

Sometimes a path goes up a steep slope,

or it goes straight ahead and winds around.

You’ll never know but you’ll wonder,

about what you’ll never know for sure.

Life 

Daniel James 2015

That Need Inside

I felt a need to hold

a need to press

a need to confess

and touch the flesh

to feel and touch

what craves inside

to push and pull

what lives beside

a spark in the dark

to percolate

thrust through the dusk

to concentrate

fire to boil

water to burn

eye to eye

yearn to spurn

I feel a need

That lives beside

I feel a need

That need inside

That Need Inside

Daniel James 2015