i wrote this a while back

my patch of blue

all things in my life

may not be as I would like

or have hoped

but if I think about life with gratitude

or envision it in as a patch of blue sky within

I can hold on to the things I am proud of,

the things I like,

and don't have then the need for the external world 

to reflect exactly maybe how I'd really like things to be

in order to effectuate action.

at work today

there were lots of jabs and wise cracks

and where I once might have winced

I now have learned to laugh with them and add my own or two

still,

I come home from work

faced with the silence in my life, in my room,

I set to fashion myself and life in respect to how things are or could be,

holding on to the patch of blue sky inside

setting off from this place of owning and humility

above the water's edge

a beginning platform

and get on with creating

in the way that I can

maybe in spite of how things are.