Did we know so much then? We thought we did High on our bootstraps and other things Nothing could stop us Not even watching people die They went down to the ground We went up higher Determined not to feel the... Continue Reading →
Home in your heart can travel with you anywhere It isn't defined by four walls With a lock and a key on the door Claiming it as yours Securing your valuables away Home is in your heart In your memories... Continue Reading →
Demons facing Daughters Dancing daunting in the dark Shadows Skulking and lingering Lost hearts searching for Healing Hoping one day The dawn will come and clear Her heavy heart And the burdens won't Beat her down for any more Days... Continue Reading →
Writing ravages my soul Pen to paper perfectly Healing my heart and mind Popping prescription pills Telling myself I've taken a turn for the crazy Fantasizing over filling my body Emptying container after container Sealing my fate one dose at... Continue Reading →
Once important people Are no longer so important Opinions that once mattered Voices once respected Have now been silenced in the mind The golden bridge that's been crossed Can't be burned from memory But won't be crossed back over That... Continue Reading →
I want my walls to come down But not crumbling down all at once quickly I will carefully deconstruct them One brick at a time And I will keep those bricks close For not everyone will be allowed past them... Continue Reading →
Time runs fine away like grains of sand thru my hand I cannot catch it and control it any better than the waves are able to on the beach The words allude my pen and are the mistress of moments... Continue Reading →
my words choked in cold sweat my breath shallow in my chest hands trembling with untempered anxiety attention can't focus longer than what was I just doing I don't even remember anymore pain so dark and deep my thoughts spin... Continue Reading →
Poetry ignites my soul But the words also shred it and destroy every ounce of my being Leaving my wounds vulnerable and exposed sour in the air Rank blood cloying in the stinging light Coiling against the harsh reality of... Continue Reading →