I drive to work. News:

Witness to a war far away

Yellow Sunflowers

Focus on their needs

Understand their perspective

Read their emotions

Fix; Mend; patch.

Carry, Listen, Trust, Nod, Hold

Forgive wrongdoing

This my programming

Instinct. Unconscious. Impulse.

I don’t even try:

ON Autopilot:

Care and Love those around me

They don’t know better

I’m Exhausted, Drained

I can’t take any more pain

The world doesn’t stop

Little me gets lost

She needs me to be upset

To Feel my Feelings

Little me listens:

She counts footsteps like heartbeats

Thump. Thump. Thump. Thu-thump.

Adult me hears her:

Time to focus on our needs

‘It’s okay’, I tell her.

I go on a run

I leave my cell phone at home

Waves crash on the shore

Silence fills my head

Adult me and little me

Collide into one