(2014)
Life is an uphill struggle Nothing comes easy and only hard work pays off I don’t like hard work was my 5 word protest
Autumn sneaks in preceding dormancy Leaves take on new beauty with nothing left in them but a fa… Individually insignificant
I see words screaming for attention etched in the lines of your face Let me look closer
There is poetry in nature better left to be spoken wordlessly by the breeze
The pen must be mightier than the sword For there is nothing that will spill your guts faster than a bit of ink that says
My heart was paper now folded six times over to make it harder to tear I only hope that
I know that you were there in my dreams and in my arms Every dream we
Everyday brings a new death in three words give or take Some days I drown
All that I know how to do is write about death without dying and write about life
You were the wind beneath my wings but I was Icarus so all I did
Everyday I lived out a song written just for you But you could
If I was once the tallest mountain your love was the wind that eroded me to nothing
I’ve kept my eyes closed most of these past eighteen years because I find it just as dark
I wrote this while thinking of you so I guess you could say this poem is eight years in the making
I awoke in the dark next to you and more alone than ever I was amazed to hear your heart beating from
