Flick of the wrist
Let your life
Sneak from your
Veins
Streaming into
Night
Dreams are dying
Everyone's lying
About the end
When eyelids flutter
And
Lungs collapse
With a gentle swoosh
All you have
Are starry skies
In the tranquility of red
In the bareness of white

Arthritic icicles drip
Shaking with your
Pounding on
My door
Again I mistake
I must stand in
Your wake
I spoke against
It all
This fusion
Your obsession
And I imagine
Arthritc icicles
Dripping still
Deadly and
A bloody body
Icing my walk

A dove in a cage

Suspended in a cage

Soaked in the

Despairing chimes

Of the time-teller

The years have kept her

Disheveled and starved

Entrapment wears the heaviest

Unable to stir her wings

Hopelessness fatigues her

Boring holes in her beating heart

Powerless and weightless

She's naked in the hole

White feathers long gone.

It came to the surface
For an anguished, choking breath
A ringing scream
Fighting to go down again
Submerge itself to be dangerous
Once more.

Hate is every color
Sqeezing from our skin
Not just one
But all
Equal but
Drowning each other

I'm on the
Corner waiting
For the black
Sedan to pick me
Up I've got this
Piece of paper telling
Me this stranger's name
I shiver because it's cold
There's a little girl
At the stop light who
Is in a car with her mom
She smiles at me
An inoccent kindness
As she draws on the foggy glass
With mitten fingers
She won't know why
I stand here for
About ten years or so
So I smile back while
Her mother growls
And drives away

You swam in my eyes

Under my skin

Dragged me under

Pulled me in

I'm lying at the bottom

Staring at the top

My last creation

Will be a cough

My steps in your steps
I am your ghost
My breath in your ear
I'm  always this close

My nightmares are

Like shifting

Videocassetts

Fast forward

Rewind

Fast forward

Rewind

I realized what

A lie it was

That dream that was

Almost as pretty

As your eyes

It forcibly turned my head

Lead my gaze

To a promise I knew

Would never be filled

To a new void

I knew would be dug.

No one likes
Sitting alone
In a parking lot
Waiting
No one likes
Being pushed around
Held against a wall
Bracing
No one likes
Hateful looks
Scoffing smiles
Breaking
No one likes
Ignorant jokes
Cruel remarks
Lingering
No one likes
A unkept mind
A bully

They said,

"Don't blink."

I did

Too many times

And you

Sank to

The bottom

Like a

Poison in

My blood

So buried I
Wish to drown
Just get it over with
I think about
Ripping my face apart
With the bathroom scissors
Because I hate
Looking like you

Your skin
Is the freezing
Water on my feet
The reason for my
Pain my          
Distance
The only reason
I bleed and
Scream to the trees

Things don't
Dissolve
Just
Liquidize and
Spread thinly
They clump in
The recesses
Like the dead
For we are

I am honest
Untwisted
Unbiased even
In your favor
You hate me
As you hate
A mirror
For you will
Not accept
Yourself

I escape here

This place where

People tell

Lies

Though

Peek-a-boo

Fingers

Play word

Games to

Twist.

With no truth

To scald pride

I hold close

Their lies

Of love.

You are just

The leftover

Electricity on

My tub from

Suicide

Attempts past

And I cannot

Feel those

Waves

Now too

Tremorless

Twitching to

Break in

A sandy sea

drowning in

My love to

Live

I wish I could

Hold you and

Not think of

Sand of

Sifting and

Slipping

Down and away.

I want this

Hold tangible

So I can

Squeeze and

Feel pain through

Your substance

Unyeilding