center Two years ago, I lost my brother, my friend. Although he wasn’t perfect,

Exhausted, Drained, I have nothing left. No more strength to fight against… I’m sinking.

I say it with my time. I say it with a rhyme. I say it when I touch you and tell you that you’re mine. I say it with my kisses.

You have two choices in life; feed the fire, or, let it die. Be it passion,

I saw him, standing alone in the rain, crying for someone to love him. Hungry, lost,

Waking up in darkness, the moon shining through my window… With tear filled eyes I sit up and remember what I was dreaming. His smiling face shining.

It’s a partly cloudy but terribly cold day. I’m running late for school and still have to scrape my truck windows of ice. I finally get there about five, maybe ten, minutes late to my U...

I walk around, feeling whispers. Avoiding the eyes that prosecute m… The stares. The glares.

In my eyes I see us, standing side by side, nothing can come between us, no matter how hard people try. In some eyes they see him,

Joy, light, happy moments, big smiles, comforting arms,

Life is cruel, when it takes your loved ones. Life is cruel, when you can’t say goodbye. Life is cruel,

I close my eyes to surrender to th… but instead get bombarded by image… Your smile flashes at me from the… Your laughter bubbles out, and it’s like I’ve gone back in ti…

center Love is a simple thing, but we complicate it. We muddy it up with doubt and fear… Doubt in ourselves.

center the tear stained faces staring up at dark ceilings contemplating life

“Can you breathe?” the air is asking, as smoke fills my lungs. I am crouched under a leaf, the tears streaming down my face