Never could have dreamt

Of someone as great as you

Butterflies accent

And fairy tails do come true

For you are here now, my love...

Empty, bare, void of light

Fruitful, blooming, cheery and bright

Chilling, brisk, bitter and cold

Sunny, warm, basking in gold

Baron, lifeless, eerily still

Bountiful energy eager to thrill

Melancholy malaise; freezing in time

Awakened and renewed; taking what’s mine

Ill and crippled by icy despair

Joyous as life become blissfully aware

Winter darkness looms over my mind

Spring rejoices, ...

This is the end

Light shatters like broken glass

Fragments are all that remain

New beginnings arise from the ashes

Your memory haunts my heart

I move forward while frozen

Life must start anew

Life must start anew

I move forward while frozen

Your memory haunts my heart

New beginnings arise from the ashes

Fragments are all that remain

Light shatters like broken glass

This is the end...

Societal norms craft picturesque notions

Of love and a life worth living

While realities wane like the tides of the ocean

Hearts weaken from endless giving

Marriage, family and white picket fences

Illustrated with joy and contentment

Being normal used as empty defenses

All the while you brew with resentment

The love you received heals deeply cut wounds

Pain reduces beyond measure

Yet it isn...

Seeking out beauty

In a world of despair

Seeking out truth

That ought to be there

How can what’s right

Be perceived as wrong

While wrongdoers go free

Like they’re right all along?

A childlike vision

Of goodness and evil

Spun through a blender

Delicious, yet lethal

Hope is at arms reach

Yet never in my grasp

The idea of freedom lingers

But never does it last

Is my view distorted

Or is the wo...

6:02

I wake up next to you.

I stare at your sleeping face

So full of beauty and grace

6:58

I serve breakfast on a plate

You smile and lift your head

As I bring it to you in bed

7:34

I’m heading out the door

We kiss before I go

Which lingers a moment or so

12:01

My work is halfway done

The very thought of you

Helps me power through

4:33

I’m finally free

Off early, I head home

To the greatest l...

I rhyme, keep in time.

Words profound, that aren’t mine.

Voiceless, choice-less, expressions of you

A writer, abuser, silencer too.

Forged from your mind

You think that it’s kind

But my thoughts are yours alone

I fear my identity only exists

Under your control

So I break the cycle

Stutter and shift

To bend words in my favor

And maybe now in this release

I’ll exist, no live, much braver

I ref...

NO one thought the vow we made

Would lead to the place we’re in.

STONE by stone we built our home,

But it was bare within.

LEFT unkept, it weakened and rotted,

Housing resentment and fear.

UNTURNED and unchecked, the chaos festered

And our path became eminently clear.

NO change of heart, nor change in mind

Could reverse the damages done

PROMISE by promise we begged and pleaded

hoping the war c...

I didn’t ask for this life; no one does. Holding knowledge of the future in my mind is a responsibility I bare heavily. It’s been a burden on my life and a curse, but a gift all the same.

It began when I was no more than 6 years old. I was a scrawny child, draped in dirty, raggedy clothes. They were the best my mother, a nomadic drifter with no family nor money, could do. I spent my days frolick...

I am without. I am weak and weary. I wither away in the seconds, minutes and hours that pass, all wishing, no, yearning for a but a morsel to fulfill me. I miss the calm and comfort of being full. I miss the warmth that soothed me and the sensation of being whole. I remember the energy I had; the vitality it brought me. I knew it was what sustained me, yet could not imagine how tragic it’s loss wo...