Cheers!!

Here's to checking under your house to make sure the rain water isn't draining under it and finding a lake...to staring in disbelief, freaking out, trying to figure out what to do, and frantically looking for a bucket to bail out the water from underneath your house...to realizing the bucket thing isn't working and grabbing a hose in order to siphon water and mud out from under your house, which comes with mouth-fulls of mud...standing in 6-8 inches of mud while trying to bail out standing water...worrying that your house may slide down the hill...digging trenches in the pouring rain, in order to divert the water away from your house...trying to salvage all your stuff that is in the middle of that lake...here's to never doing any of this again! Cheers!

i am aaron's itchy beard

i am aaron's itchy beard
overgrown and unkept
flourishing in times of distress
hiding his sunken,
sorrow-filled face
taking over his life
that is a mess

i am soon to be gone
he says he wants a fresh start
apparently he has laid to rest
and asked for healing
for the wounds
that reside in his heart