As the product of your devoted care,

I’m supposed to be top of my class and do everything with flair 

 Because you were book smart, so too should I achieve this goal 

When you say “rock” I should ask “how far shall I roll?”

As of the oldest of four siblings, one beinghandicapped

I must lead the charge, set the example, always make sure my boots have been strapped 

I must help where I’m needed

   ...

If hope were a pail

What would fill it to the top?

Brimming and spilling with love that’s nonstop?

But when it spills, what would that entail?

A bucket full of hopelessness

Empty, hollow, rusting from the inside out

Wondering what the joy in life is all about

For so long, Your positive energy has been completely spent.

You’ve experienced too much heartache

Lost too many people that you love.

Bro...

We enter this world naked and scared

from a mother who just laid everything to bare

From her own body she grew you for 40 weeks

And she’s never seen anything sweeter than those cheeks

First those cheeks are covered in vernix goo

So you’re wiped down and swaddled like a kangaroo

Your mouth searching for your first taste of life

Mothers milk comes easy for you, but for her it takes strife

For the ...

“And now for my next act, ladies and gentlemen…

A permanent finale to close the show.”

I’ve spent hours listening to your heart beat.

Your words morphed into my mind.

Painting a picture that together we would be happy and content.

And maybe we would have,

If I didn’t have the need to self-destruct.

To implode, so your life will explode,

Piercing you with shrapnel.

But I will be gone before you ...

If your hand could reach inside my heart, what would you do with it?

Would you caress it as you would a wounded, fragile bird?

Coaxing it to trust, whispering it is now secure.

Would you care for it with patience and pride?

Would you share your fears and dreams - to it would you confide?

Or would it cause you to lust for a romantic rendezvous,

Becoming one instead of bodies as two

Gooey sexy dri...

When I awoke this morning, my room had the hues of twilight

Morning was doing its best to peek through the windows,

But Darkness was currently winning the fight.

Believing I had more time to dream, I sank back into my pillow

Glanced at my phone to find out how many hours I had to spare

And good thing I did, because it gave me quite the scare!

It was my typical time to start the day

My biological...

My son and daughter

Standing in a meadow together

He’s covered in streaks of dirt

And her knees bloody from a fall that hurt

An argument ensued

They look my way for me to choose

Who is right and who is wrong

A different day, but the same old song.

Fuzzy wisps twinkle past my eyes

Making me smile as the ethereal seeds float by

I ask my children to look at the dandelions scattered in the field

And...