(2013)
Everyday brings a new death in three words give or take Some days I drown
I spend my nights wishing on every star in the sky that you are alive and well
You were the wind beneath my wings but I was Icarus so all I did
Passion doesn’t arise from 12 point Times New Roman but rather from ink on one page and another
You asked what I knew about you and I thought up a list of twenty things
I would write a sweet poem and title it with your name if I loved you at all
If nature were so flattered by poems written with itself in mind as people are we would be moving mountains
I’ve always been at the very least a little caught up on everything about you This idea of you
I say hello and you say nothing You may hear me you may even think of a response
There is a girl and I love her and I have loved her since the beg… Or so it seems to me as I only became conscious
I see poems that need to be written scrawled in the shape of your smile and the lines of your face
I know that you were there in my dreams and in my arms Every dream we
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
I grew up in a house built in 1937 long before codes and regulations and sometimes
I feel empty unceasingly until you come along and fill my heart to bursting