Life, wherever it leads, Will always be the same, It begs for the best of you.

Be content to love, to dazzle in the light, If only for moments… And then be gone, With gladness in your heart, Before the creeping shadows Claim too much your sadness at leaving.

Ours was such a delicious risk. My being abruptly and altogether Ecstatic and be-stilled.

On the canvas of life, Every sweep of the brush matters, Counts for something.

Sense how Even the smooth stones ache With stories of their own In the shuddering light of day.

The searing light of morning Asks unwelcome questions, Fragile hopes soon blistered by daylight.

Be brave enough to never yearn For that you cannot hold close In your heart forever. Tread lightly, cherish compassion And live in the moment without fear.

Ultimately not one amongst us Will ever be denied that, The glimmer of a chance to shine.

I am sad, like the hot dust on the streets And the music of fresh fallen leaves Caught in a sliding summer breeze.

Sublime moments refracted, Even if only for seconds, Caught forever in your soul.

Nothing that truly matters Can ever evaporate, Be excised, Burnt out of your soul.

Nothing in this physical world moves from disorder to order without intelligence and energy being applied to it.

Words of war, on a piece of paper. Where peace is torn off, crumbled and toss in the waste basket.

What I have sought is to understand what has been said.

Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with.

The experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you could have reasonably expected to go.

My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.

Nothing worth noting.

Anxiety and depression are the price you pay for a well-lived life.

The practice of our democracy depends on a sense of, and knowledge of, history in the same way that playing in the World Series requires a bat and a ball.

Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.