Failing as we Fall, by Scarlett Rains

Failing as we Fall

Words trip from my lips,

stumbling, they fall 

in stops and starts,

tumbling towards misinterpretation.

Coward that I am,

I call them back.

Too late. 

Your eyes remind me, again,

I am too late.

© 2012 Scarlett Rains

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Potential Untapped, a poem by Scarlett Rains

Potential Untapped

The one note, unsung, sets the 

tone for it all,

like a gong unsounded in 

a Buddhist’s garden,

or a dewdrop clinging to the leaf.

© 2012 Scarlett Rains

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