Every Minute

2021

All that I was,
thought to be,
broke, fell down, 
and I was left with me. 

I did not know
what to do, or to be,
tried, fell down,
never in touch with me.

On my way up,
out of the pit, 
empty hands, blurred-out friends,
unneeded, unfit.

Only the lonely,
understand and know,
that in the deepest place,
there is still a floor below.

And in that place,
and all thereafter,
I mend my life of fragments,
like a mosaic crafter.

I changed, I turned, 
silenced, emptied,
raged unseen,
others envied. 

I needed help, I needed love,
I needed trust, I needed true.

I flew away,
rode my rides,
sailed my seas,
and fought my fights.

No connections,
just reflections,
words encircle 
pain in vain.

Today I learned that in retrospective,

I needed every minute of my brain
to get my life together. (Tina Turner)

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After watching a great documentary on Tina Turner there was this one little line that sticked in my head. “I needed every minute of my brain to get my life together”. What a beautiful bridge between thinking and time.