For a special someone :)
(2013)
I see your face. Lifeless and pale, resting on a pillow of white silk. I try to pretend you’re sleeping, but the tears in my eyes betray me…
Don’t leave me brokenhearted. Don’t leave me in the dust. Don’t pretend you love me, if all you feel is lust. I’m scared you’ll walk away.
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.
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...
This morning, I was so happy. Clean and ready to work. I thought you would care. Care enough to clean me,
Tapping fingers on a keyboard, writing directly from my mind. Stuck in the numbness of detachmen… not noticing the hours that tick b… Tracks from tears made slowly,
center Love is a simple thing, but we complicate it. We muddy it up with doubt and fear… Doubt in ourselves.
Words fail.
Lord, Things are unbearable. I have been shouting. I have been crying. Hoping you would listen.
Exhausted, Drained, I have nothing left. No more strength to fight against… I’m sinking.
I saw him, standing alone in the rain, crying for someone to love him. Hungry, lost,
I was sixteen when it happened. My best friend Lilly convinced me to go to a party her boyfriend Joe was throwing and like an idiot I caved. As Lilly and I walked in the door she ran of...
Cousin. Brother. Best friend. All one person and now he’s dead.
Sister I love you, but only because I have to. That’s what momma told me, when I said I hate you. I hate the way you smile,
Peace comes: When laying under the stars. When wrapped up in his arms. When listening to bird song. When speaking to God above.