HOW DO YOU KNOW YOU LIVE?

HOW DO YOU KNOW YOU LIVE?

How do you know you live

when you are not certain?

Is it the slow, or very fast beat

under your hand resting

on your chest?

Is it the faint notion of

movement in your legs;

The ticklish feeling you

didn't know still existed

on your calves?

How do you know you live?

Is it for the deep feelings

In the abyss of sometimes

inky darkness?

Or the light fluttering butterflies?

Or the sunrays playing

with light and words that tumble

and crumble and make

their own stubborn way

Onto paper?

Is it for voices friendly

penetrating your darkness

and tearing you out

and up?

How do you know you live?

***

Meme by Mel Leach

Poem by Darren White

November 2, 2016