She rattles her cage
deep inside
where I hid her
so you could not touch her
This outer part,
this shell, this facade
is all you have
but not the real me
She is mine
and I am hers
the door is shut but I forgot
to turn the lock
Only a matter of time
before she busts out
to tear your world apart
and burn it down
Aug 23, 2020
Aug 23, 2020 at 9:06 AM UTC
to do the right thing for
the wrong reason or
to do the wrong thing for
the right one
Feb 25, 2020
Feb 25, 2020 at 8:59 AM UTC
I'm told I should want
to be a saint but I don't
because I'm wicked
Why paint the town white
when red is much more like it
the color of sin
What makes it a sin?
because you don't understand?
or it leaves a stain?
Just a brush of red
tells you just how I like it
and where I want it
Splash it here and there
color me bad and tell me
I'm going to hell
Among coal and fire
surrounded by souls like mine
I'm in good company
What could be better
than floating on clouds of white?
Dancing in red fire
So no - I don't want
to be a saint because I
love being wicked
Red suits me better anyway
Feb 23, 2020
Feb 23, 2020 at 9:12 AM UTC
Pick up your Markings
discover that reading you
is meeting me
A heart cleaved open
by thoughts never spoken yet
I know them as mine
How can this be when
penned and inked long before I
was even an I
Here they are, speaking
words never written yet known
as carved on my heart
These words resonate
pulsing out, low and long as
water on the shore
Washing over Time
one voice drawn from two strings
as Rilke had said
As is you and I
with one voice burning with words
that transcend all time
Thanks for the giving
back of my words which I spoke
long before I was
And for your markings
guiding me along the path
to the Meeting Place
Where you and I are
one voice drawn from two strings
in Eternal Hands
Feb 3, 2020
Feb 3, 2020 at 12:06 PM UTC
all along I thought you
hated me enough
to hurt me
but all along you didn't
love me enough
to want to
Jan 14, 2020
Jan 14, 2020 at 11:18 AM UTC
I am the dark side of the moon
Isolated
Solitary
Alone
On my Shadow Side
release is found for
all the shades of my soul
No one I need answer to
I make all the rules
and break every one
Laugh with abandon
drink until every limb is numb
and the pain dissolves
Smoke cigars until
the haze makes me dizzy
and dance to no music at all
Here in my Shadow Side
where no light can touch me, I drift
through the smooth velvet of night
stepping on stars
Jan 14, 2020
Jan 14, 2020 at 7:54 AM UTC
Hands
I love to sit and watch wrists
like stumps of trees with
knotty, rooty fingers bent
and formed from forming
a hundred-thousand bread doughs
rolling an infinity of perfect-thin
sugar cookies cut
into shapes of lambs
of bells of holly leaves
Hands
forever cupped by a lifetime
of dipping out a cup of drink
for man and creature kind
pouring herself out
through fingers long
worn smooth by Rosary beads
"Cold hands but a warm heart" - she says
holding on to mine she ask if
I am from Alaska. "No but
on my back I'll take you there" and
a "lumpie" I am named while
her hand kneads and forms my own
like a fresh batch of dough
and I can feel her
Heart
carried in her palm
Jan 13, 2020
Jan 13, 2020 at 3:53 PM UTC
if you weren't going to stay
why did you ask me for it
to give you my heart
just to take it in hand
pressing out all my love
and rip it open
leaving behind you a
trail of blood and me with
a fist shaped wound
Jan 13, 2020
Jan 13, 2020 at 8:24 AM UTC
i don't think of tomorrow
tomorrow may not come
only this moment
only this -
playing on your fingertips
honey glow of the sun spills
over your naked form
warming cool sheets
as you sleep -
only this
is mine
Jan 8, 2020
Jan 8, 2020 at 7:42 AM UTC
when you said I could
trust you i didn't know you meant
until i shouldn't
when you said you'd love me
forever i didn't know you meant
only until Tuesday
Jan 7, 2020
Jan 7, 2020 at 11:58 AM UTC