~Alive~

"When I let go of what I am I become what I might be"  -Lao Tzu

Clouds

Sugar and pepper

The sky

I'll be there for you
resilient and unbending
a footstep away

You’re never

Gonna go

If you don’t

Go now

Skies Lift your head to the sky

To touch the gravity between your fingers

Makes distance

Feel so near

Ages of light leaves

Breathless blooms

Makes you feel

Drunk

The trees

Are crowned

With leaves

In the quiet

Shivers

Of the breeze

Make it

Easier

To forget

The hold of you

Beautiful night

The common

Darkness
The trees

A silent echo
Still
A mystery
That keeps
Pulling

me
in
until I feel alive

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Perfect Illusion

I woke up

It was raining

It was falling hard

Making the sunlight

Translucent

A silver sheet

In motion

It could have still been a dream

So I went back to sleep

The perfect

Illusion

You want

To keep

Godspeed, sister,

there and back again
Certainty is fleeting,

that is why we must have faith

But it’s hard

To find what

Reasons

I should believe

You give me what you can,

I give you what I can,

and we are  made whole by it.

I ask no more than that

with a presence

as changeable

as the weather
perfection is never smooth,

An unpolished

Stone

perfection is kindness

you give to others
I hear you telling me

A whisper

A memory

Against my skin

You will feel better than that

Will I?

Yes,

you just keep living

until you feel alive again

I’ll be a footstep away,

that’s all
I bow down to pray
I try to make the worst seem better
show me the way
To cut through

This stormy weather

Head stuck in a cycle,

Stuck in a dream,

but completely aware

It's easy

to be miserable

Being happy

takes more work

Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I stuck.

Blue cornflowers

bent grass

I just need one good one

Be careful

Or you might

Say something

You actually mean

So rest it well

Lay your head

Until you see it

My friend

~Sarah Mahina Calvello~

~bare~

sunshine

slowly cooling

I’m awake

but I feel like

I’m deep sleep

dreaming

I want to hold

onto

something real

this

Is me

with

my bare tree

exposed

my leaves

shaken off

along the way

really

see

The colors

hidden underneath

burning the

ground

the roots

need air

they curl

and unfurl

stay on

The moonlit side

your

not

there

but you are

excited

nervous

attention slides

over my

surface

too

many alone

busy people

around me

I’d rather light a candle

than curse the darkness

slow down, find the gap

the loveliness

of an ordinary moment

In the moment I’ll be with you

but it will be a different kind
the disease of the mind

is to set mind against mind


I break from the crowd
don’t tell me

I’m out of touch

with  your rampant chaos

your reality

treading

a line

it's just

discord

and rhyme

drinking

juices

and wine

you can’t

fight

the night

~Sarah Mahina Calvello~

electric

want to light it now

give it one more day

you told me that even sugar

melts in the rain

and it's just another

moonlight mile

down the road

when the sky is painted

in electric paint

colors are icy

sugar swirls

first

comes stress

then comes worry

to haunt me

close your eyes

the air

is alive

and the sky

is burning

and liquid

with all

the hidden colors

in the world

everything

is shimmering

running

into shadows

and corners

to no avail

time

to break

the chain

Make the most

of your

minutes
escape
the soft
lonliness

~Sarah Mahina Calvello~

~Start When You are~

It was a day

Where

Everything was gray

The trees

Looked

like they were melting

Running

Into each other

into each other

like liquid ink

wind

shook
the black leaves

everything smells

so good

like sandalwood

and salty dreams

like something new

just about

to start

where you can hear

water and wind

before you

you

leave me

in the

quiet

lost in thoughts  

and busyness

sometimes

I feel

like I’m losing myself

I'm excited

and a little nervous,

cautiously optimistic
I’d rather light a candle

than curse the darkness
slow down

there is a gap

between my thoughts

where there is still

a sense of wonder

hold onto that

because you can never

get it back

discover the loveliness

of an ordinary moment
you’ve been taken

from pillar to pillar

so that it’s almost bearable

the rosy advice you disperse

with pear shaped tones

because if you haven’t tried

you haven’t lived

I want you to get swept away

I want you to sing like the devil

and dance like a dervish

there is not an ounce of excitement,

a whisper of it thrill
time to

get it back

start where you are


~Sarah Mahina Calvello~