by Carolyn Chilton Casas
Lately, I’ve been noticing
my neediness for comfort,
my craving to avoid anything
showing signs to the contrary.
Unwilling to turn the water off,
I linger in my hot shower,
feeling guilty the whole time
for wasting this precious resource.
I want to wake gradually each morning
to the gentle bells of flycatchers and thrashers,
not an alarm startling me from my dreams.
Chocolate, need I mention this obsession?
Preferably smooth, dark, and creamy–
it helps keep the shadows at bay.
And reading engaging stories
lets me enter lives not my own,
allows me temporary respite
from the urgent rapping on the
cottage door to my serenity.
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Carolyn Chilton Casas is a Reiki master and teacher who often explores ways of healing in her articles written for magazines in several countries. Her poetry has been published in journals and anthologies including The Wonder of Small Things: Poems of Peace and Renewal. More of Carolyn’s work can be found on Facebook or Instagram, in her poetry collection Our Shared Breath, and in the forthcoming book Under the Same Sky.