You See Now…

You see now. I didn’t know it would be like this. Who in their right mind would have ever taken it on had they known? I didn’t know the thing would follow me here. I thought I was safe from its nose, always sniffing the wind and watching for movement, any movement. I hid in [...]

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Jess

Jess?   I found some pictures. Pictures of you. Not the you I once knew. Gone now, the mass of black curls. Gone, the sharp cheekbones women whispered about, the slanted green eyes that pierced so much they frightened people. Gone now the tiny frame of muscle that had lifted me high and twirled with [...]

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Not Your Baby

I’m okay I’ve never been helpless I’m not the baby Anymore   Don’t worry I don’t need saved I’ve made it this far On my own   I’m all right I never asked for Not your baby All alone   Don’t worry I’m okay I was your baby Not anymore

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Mess of Dreams

I stumbled onto you A picture, no less In fact there were three   Grinning in one Head thrown back Softness apparent New to me   Black shades the next Guitar aimed Like an arrow At her heart   But the last The soul heavy tired eyes I remember these Even now   So old [...]

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Twist

“I’m doing this for you.”                               –Last words of a sociopath

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Collected Perceptions

Now that you’ve taken everything Tell me how does it feel to need more Now that you’ve drank your fill Tell me how does it feel to be bored Now that you’ve spent all your time How do you know you’re too late Now when you empty your pockets How do you sort your mistakes [...]

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Just a Kid

When you’re a teenager, you think you know everything. You also think you are indestructible. I look at kids that age, and I see children. But once in a while, I see one who also reminds me of me. A certain squint in one eye, a stance, a way of breathing. Not willing to wait, [...]

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Just Be

  Today. Begin. Everything You’ve worked for Imagined Dreamt Longed after Mourned   Today. Now. Whatever You had pictured Envisioned Slept on Chased after Sorrowed for   This day. Stop. Whoever You’ve projected Pretended Posed as Run from Scorned   Today. Just live. What are you still running from? Waiting for? This is not a [...]

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The Why

There is no understanding “Why”. Trying to comprehend, with a compassionate heart, the incomprehensible; the compassionless. It will make you crazy.  All that needs understood is more stark and brutal than I like to be, but it is the truth still; there are people in the world who cannot be filled or satisfied. Ever. The [...]

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Heartless

  Darkness Calling Darkly, Hauntingly Darkness falls on Broken Holes in me Darkness, Heartless Wanting Let me in Darkness, Darkness Darkness Let me be   Darkness Taunts me Tells me ugly Things Darkness Speaks to Remembered emptiness Darkness Whispers Darkness Screams Heartless Darkness Darkness Never leaves   Darkness Watching Darkness Always sees Darkness Falls on [...]

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