#BeautyHome #NaturalStruggle #War
The chronic, liquefactive necrosis… Except the immortal soul carries o… with all its accumulated scars and… Whose soul is upon my life, to wei… heavily the inflammation of loneli…
Within the dead of those we choose… lies a truth forever gone. Within the dead of those we choose… choose to hate, or never cared enough to know
I choose love I choose love I choose love Because it is you Because it is you
unwanted connection to my youth uninterrupted stream of consciousn… first memories linger and manifest periodic reminders of what I can’t… my escape from the void
I live on the knifes edge where if I stray even a millimeter to the left I am convinced that any and every flaw
I found you at last. I do not need to see your face, or know your name. I just need to know that you were… that you came from the same place…
I drive through each forgotten str… Where the daily trash upon the cit… And mark on every body I meet Marks of violence, marks of chroni… In every defiant act of every Man…
I cry alone cuse I don’t want you seeing me in… I’m addicted to this face of a Ma… and all the masculinity we taught… Rewriting the pain of war and brok…
It doesn’t come through governance… it has existed all throughout. It doesn’t come through war, fear and revenge masquerade as lib… It doesn’t come through money,
In these moments between focus, be… in these moments between effort an… in these moments between experienc… where I want to not want, but also… I have weak footholds for what is…
What happens when my ADHD is unleashed? Or is it anxiety confused as attention deficit? My ideas now flow
waves over the mind shivers thru the body. Hope, the thread intertwined, through the life of a living soul.
if i could speak freely, I would’ve from the start. If my mind had the answers i wouldn’t of gotten so lost. If I coulda made sense
She said: “Is there more to your… Is being a Marine not enough? I wanted to be a firefighter. I wanted to save people’s lives. I like manning the 50cal machine g…
I don’t belong here, in the crushing deep abyss. The triturating pressure, makes me forget about the asphyxia… The frigid cold,
When faced with the worst of human… the obsession became love. It could have become something els… When faced with those who could so… the obsession could have become ha…
I would love love love to get back… I fought fought fought to be the b… I ran ran ran through miles of inv… I stopped because it was controlli… Each step of all those miles – tra…
you are happy as a bee, showing all the other bees where all the pretty flowers lie. You are the best bee dancer, Zumbando in all of the sky.
If a demon appeared at my window I would laugh and say what world are you trying to find and who are you looking for, me are you looking for me?
I thought I burned everything. Denial expedited closure. Now your words break through the i… I find them scattered all over my… Burning love for closure,
I perpetually wait, I cannot act, but I always know, and you’re gone… It happens quickly, often with jus… that I know how deeply, I can lov… I’m not so foolish to think there…
did my love, flow in tides, like the ocean, as small currents, travelin round,
We need more community. For chron… For poverty– the myth through stor… For AIDS, for overdose too. We need more community, the kind t… selflessness, and non-judgmentalis…
The first time I heard the word p… She slammed my head against the wa… And I stared straight back into t… Fuming with fire, scorching the ho… There was nowhere to run, nowhere…
I opened my page and saw that my w… They carry a secret message, a por…
I need you to accept who I am. I need you to not doubt what I have arrived at regarding w… I need you to listen to what made… I know you know there is no right…
Sit awhile and play, refrain from… just long enough to sing, what mig… the cords in my brain, that connec… Don’t forget everything that made… before you were weak, and know, ev…
I was open to trying. I was open to overcoming, and I found you running away. I don’t know where to stand, to make you not afraid of me.
First thought not about ethnicity, but rather, that someone could exist between identities, but society is constantly rejectin… Identity is spiky, it’s painful,
Thunder rips dreams from sleep. The fitful heave themselves upon t… Lightening sears all eyelids open. The fitful heave themselves upon t… The voluminous sweat from the back…
River is always changing, with a crack coming out of the cli… the river from the cliffs, down to the beach, carved out in an alcove,
Pestering funnel of delinquency, hovering in the stratosphere for a… from where we lit the lake of fuel… Spewing and billowing off to the n… forecasting trouble in the lands o…
The waves crash over the barnacle… Crabs and small fish tangle in a b… The air and water meld as one cont… Each are in pursuit of their own m… Birds hover over the seemingly una…
I wanted it out of my head. To see it, cage it, shackle it, reduce its power in abstract form, tame it by silencing its shifting… I wanted to smell it, hear it, lis…
The leaves drop every fall, yes th… Their genetic residue, like a mill… marking the thousands fallen befor… The next of kin leaflets, bare the… Death is no escape from imperfecti…
Ambivalence was taking the power b… Without ever looking back, but the… Ambivalence was the guilt preventi… was the same guilt I was taught to… Ambivalence was people calling me…
room whitewashed walls sanitized me in a room broken brain
Did you know you can get cavities in your brain? It's tired in here and the sweat dripping from all these brain cells
spacelessness– timelessness, nightmare awakening consciousness. Hell as anti-spacelessness, anti-timelessness.
The two whirling white clouds of s… One soft and sweet from burning ol… The other harsh and irritating fro… The billowing smoke choked out Pa… But only for the moment where brea…
full, cold-water, facial submersio… eyes closed, holding breath, the park bursts forth with green l… draping down from liberated trees, and yellow—brownish stains of moss…
There is something uncomfortable about calling this poetry, when it is pain. It would be further awkward to edi… defining it as work, refining the…
I hate that you smoke I despise that we choke on our desperate attempts for irrational contempt my best efforts remote
Dear Mom, I can’t even begin to tell how you might have reacted to the letter I sent. It was not intended to be hurtful,
The orange train screeched around the bend, carrying her. I knew I had to act quickly in my expressions of affection. I anticipated her every move,
I feel as though I’ve landed on a beach, as an invading, occupying force. Only to find the land
Darkness waxed, first encounter with the new moon… su spilling from my mind, whispering ancestor sight. I waited for death,
My mind is a million miles away fr… How’d I get all the way over here… Is there a train going back? Can I get back by 6am tomorrow mo… I gotta be in the icu,
I lock the door, to keep out the demons. They come in, when I’m sleeping. My brain——- wide open.
I saw anger, justice, passion, eng… I saw despair, emaciation, dysphor… I saw shame, fear, desperation fl… I saw flat, emotionless, mirrors r… I saw provocation, hostility, infl…
All the pain rocks me to sleep. I grew tolerant to the effects, Addicted to the intoxicating isola… Romanticized despair, holding hope… I can follow the trail at the slig…
you can learn to build a castle at the beach, living within, or maybe just around, the makeshift moat,
I am claustrophobic, mountains are liberating, of my humble human anxiety. Bodies of water seem provocative, with their two-dimensional facade,
You think it’s fear you’re drawing… but continue to relentlessly corne… and you’ll realize fear was a guar… a mask seeking to deceive, a prelude to the seething energy o…
Where do I let my hopes hang? In the air with scents of flowers… How do I let my emotions reign? Among animals I am not brave enou… Why do I share the shards of my p…
Passing houses, dusty, dilapidated, situated on the traffic
I was home in Westwood. I was home in Camp Lejeune. I was home with one love. I failed at childhood; failed stat… Desperate for home anywhere I lay…
Like I promised, I still love you, not for the principle of loyalty, but because I yearn from the deepest
This hat that fits so snug and tig… This hat that lines my face just r… I stole it from the man in line. He was stuck in Tuxtla, I was fin… I found it first, these hats are r…
