Inkpaw

If I had to choose one word to describe myself
as of right now
I would say blessed
blessed
that I have a family
who loves me
blessed
that I have enough food
to fill my stomach whenever I am hungry 
blessed

knewspaper scraps
and lost recitps 
blow around in the wind
unwanted 
and strewn across the desolate landscape
of people's front lawns
if you can call them that
it's really just cement
with a tree in a cage

laughing. . . 
feels like dancing 
in the rain 
and leaping without ever coming down
it feels like I woke up
in a compleatly different world this morning 
it's like that moment

my craft 
is smelting words
and painting feeling
it's made of all the whispers of the world-
if you listen, you can hear them too
-and the dreams that go unseen 
song lyrics
and moonbeams
starlight

lights
blinking at me
weary from their year long slumber
I look up 
at the dark green 
pine scented 
branches
and smile
from my position on the floor
it looks like I could be in a forest