We lost each other in the chaos of life

We drowned in the voices of others

We

What happened to us?

Do you ever think about that?

I do

Maybe you do too

We

We had so many plans

Plans to be together

Forever

We

We lost each other along the way

We suffocated

We choked

We

We’re gone

There’s no hope for us now

We

We’ve become just a daily poetry prompt...

For my favorite toy

of my toddler self;

I imagine you’re somewhere better now,

perhaps another kid sees you the way I did.

I loved your bright colors

and silly Blue’s Clues song.

I loved clicking the fun buttons

a new song wouldn’t wait long.

The radio would light up,

a rhythm would start,

the Dora Explorer song started with a thump.

I can only hope with sincerity,

that a toddler loves your c...

Does love die, does it lie?

Does it stay constant, or deny?

Does it hurt, does it flirt,

Does love even work?

In your beginning love is born,

Love is nurtured, love is torn.

How love feels as love grows,

How it steals and how it shows.

How it heals, how it lives,

How much beauty love still gives.

Love can dim, love can go,

Love is warm, yet love is cold.

Love is bold—my love I hold.

Love can fa...

Wilted and ruined,

My precious flower is dead.

How long till you disappear

With Winter’s returned dread?

My garden no longer lives;

Its beauty is wasted.

If only flowers would never die

And Death never chase us.

Soon I’ll be like my flower,

Wilted and worn.

Frost will cover my skin

And my heart will be torn....

Faith

Is a beautiful thing,

A blessed feeling of belief,

But when the world around me

Is burning to naught but ash,

Faith

Is impossible to maintain.

That’s exactly what’s happening

With me.

Faith

Is a fragile thing,

Like a mirror,

With a hit hard enough,

It will shatter.

I once held this faithful mirror

To the world around us,

Admiring its glorious reflection,

Until it all started to burn

And ...

Future, be free

Little daughter of the stars

Shenandoah

The death of me, the death of you

And everybody who

Preaches down on the infants

Preaching down on the infants

Screens and clones, they seek our own

They’ve captured all of whom

Is willing to be seized

We used to call for Santa

Now all we wish for is some Tampa

Sun mirrors off the water, let’s get a boat

We could ride out, h...

Brown eyes and dumpling cheeks

Attuned

on your scowl

“You left me to rot”

Like

A bitten plum

Leaking out my substance

Used

Disgusting

Gritted teeth encompass what I see

The me

“You used to be”

A girl....

The house is dark, quiet

Children are crying

Adult’s laughter has now faded into serious conversations

What once was happy is now melancholy

The rooms are cold

Objects casting large strange shadows

There is hate and sorrow in the air

Something is missing

Something to lighten up the house

Something that is gone for awhile

Something that is cold and unmoving

Alone on a table

The lamp sits...

Desintegrating, piece by piece.

Layer by layer.

Mood switching.

Code switching.

Forging new patterns.

Ones that-- before felt out of line.

A circus in my mind quiets down.

Seeing clearly, the words seep through,

Puncturing the paper.

"This is why it had to die."

Underestimated.

Disempowered.

Treated delicately.

Like a flower.

I don't mind, but now I rise.

On the pedestal

W...