Redemption

I deserved better.
I was waking up.
Redemption is something you do.
I started thinking I should
forgive and live
in the present.

Paralysis

The soul
felt a terrible ache,
the years went
slowly numb
in a spread of paralysis,
of shock,
an inward emptiness
in her soul.
Like dead leaves crumpling
to powder,
blown away on the wind.