Collapse—whatever

The walls stopped closing in and just fell in Surrounded by the rubble of my life and the end of sunlights sweet kiss, I now accept life isolated and knifed by the stab and cut of the inevitable razors embedded in the storm of shadow whose tentacles grasp and will never let go. What do...

ENOUGH WITH THE CHRISTMAS!

It’s NOVEMBER people!! Can we hold ourselves for just a little bit or should we just redraw the damn calendar and eliminate the month and ThanksgivingAll together!!! Yes this is a rant. I am so tired of the super early Christmas decor already up by November 1st and the incessant Christmas music already blaring at...

Walk out of Reach

I look into my minds eyeAnd smell the dog salt airof a beach I’ll never My soul longs to play as a pirateOn a shipnof stoneRising and falling on a silent wavelost from the shore and time Time looms short on a road that still stretchesTo the horizonAnd ends at a green dome that rises...

The Winning Hand

I sat alone this creaky nightPlaying as a cat alone with stringMy whimsical game of cardsSolitary and silent The cards, full of the colors of a life once lived,Now dingy and tinged with yellow on the edgesfound themselves stacked edge by edge,Top by top,One suit here and one number thereUntil one was last to hold—solitary...

Soul of a Leaf

Why is it that a soul can weigh as much as a freighter,As solid as an anchor of driven steelAnd as mighty as the roar of a thunder strike Yet fall and fly as a leaf in deep autumnWhen life plucks it from its tree of hopeAnd sails it away on the wind of destiny,as...

Brink In Fall

I lay in the bone room,Stunned by the explosion of color through the paneWhile hooked to dripping tubes of cold realityKeeping me alive through this season I cannot touchBut can only feelWith my eyes I look at my armsTheir own explosion of colorKeeping me in a season of isolationThat all can only be sensedThrough a...

Candle Dance

A flicker is thereBut not of light;It belongs to a candle remaining unlitBut it’s warmth shines in a dark felt not seen It’s underlying pulseGlimmers and shuddersIn the cavern of the silent mindAnd blinds perceptionWithin an eye and a spirit long stilled, A flicker burst then goneWithin the fleeting of a breath in the dark,Yet...