Poetry

Timeline Photo

I find that protecting my heart from intruders’ gaze takes no effort at all anymore. It’s as easy as repeating one little phrase. “I’m just not ready, please let me be.” You will stay at…

Her Many Masks

Love continues to surprise me with the many masks she wears. How different is she really from someone who truly cares? Her range is vast.  A spectrum remarkably unmatched. She can exist in both obsessive…

Sleep Shirts

A few loose sleep shirts sit folded and perfectly aligned, tranquilly undisturbed in the set of cloth drawers you left behind. They have no knowledge of conflict no memory of lovers’ strife I envy their…

Hi

It’s hard to know how to fill my days when I haven’t quite reached the distraction phase. Two full days & nights without leaving this bed, the life I live now exists in my head.…

The Snap

While agony reigned and heartache lingered I made the decision to snap my fingers and create a blimp so incredibly strong with repercussions that you truly are gone. I’ve searched high and low for any…

The Variant

Gather your weapons and do your worst I surrender to you and have not been coerced. Prune if you must, I’ll be sent to the void But trust me, my life will be hardly destroyed.…

Drowning

I know I’m not as thin and my shape not as clearly defined. I know I’m not quite as vibrant. Maybe I’m meant to be left behind. My whole world was stolen from their very…

Glasses

It’s time to take off your glasses and rest your weary eyes, my dear. The ones you use to stare at your warped reflection, where things are not always as they appear. You spot the…

Darkness

Darkness, take your two hands from around my neck. Release your wicked grasp so that I might have at least one gasp. You push me down like school boys in the school yard And continue…

Dearest girl

Dearest girl, I beseech you to not turn away Go on, steal a glance of my soul on display These words are written with blood from my veins that’s drained from my corpse and these…

Searching

I had found myself shelled Living in voids day-to-day A dull, earthly fog Muted in only one shade of gray You came to my door And simply tapped three times A small, subtle shift From…

The Artist

I once knew an artist who painted each stroke the most vibrant of shades, a sight to behold. Every word told a tale, ink spilled from his pen, His eyes saw the world through a…

My Sun and Stars

Until the winds move the mountain And the deserts end their drought Until the deepest oceans run dry And the sun rises in the west Until the stars burn out at night And the moon…

The Dream

I had a dream I ran to where you are. I took the weary path, least travelled by all Filled with shards of rock, a treacherous maze And bleeding feet that caused me to crawl…

Hide me away

Hide me away. Like a flightless bird with its head in the sand Shutter my eyes From what they cannot withstand. Cast me out to sea. Let me sink to deep dark depths Where the…

Until the Sunrise

The sight of your name shoots sparks through my brain and makes my heart race an intoxicating pace. Your fingertips brush my skin, I finally feel alive once again. The rhythm of your heartbeat plays…

Moonlight

The sun bows to the moon each night. Weary workers rest their heads, cradled in blankets of silence and silk, while children face monsters under their beds. The moon dances across my face, reminding me…

Neighbor

We both have four walls, a roof, and a door with leaky faucets we’d rather ignore. Steep mountains of paper that start to accrue, each one giving notice of payments past due. There seem to…

Take Me Back

Take me back to when my eyes met yours. Before stolen kisses behind closed doors. Before I felt the warmth of your touch and we never knew it could hurt this much. Let me get…

Leave a Message

Just one more taste. The moment your sweet nectar touches my paper-thin lips, like a honey bee flocks to his spring bloom. Transport me to a place where darkness isn’t defined by the shade of…

Starlight Starbright

My blood has pooled to my back. Still as an ocean tide missing the moon, with thirsty shores wrung dry as these bones. My flesh has melted away. Lost in a valley too vast to…