Offer patience to the shadows
that dissolve with veil of night
Strong outlines of your being
Dark reflections from the light
Jan 16, 2019
Jan 16, 2019 at 1:07 AM UTC
I held myself together
Through the fire
Through the cold
I held my heart together
Through the lies that had been told
I let myself unravel
Feel the darkness
Feel the rain
I let my soul unravel
Giving patience to the pain
I stitched myself a new life
Always dreaming
Something more
I sewed my hope together
Stronger than I was before
Jul 9, 2018
Jul 9, 2018 at 12:21 AM UTC
I offered you a poem
Hoping it would help you see
The words too proud to speak aloud
A more authentic me
You didn’t need to like it
Never asked you to pretend
I chose to share my heart to bare
To my kind and lovely friend
You skimmed the lines so quickly
Crumbled paper on the floor
And with a glance cast it askance
Claiming poetry a chore
Through the careless criticism
Silence broke my soul apart
I became aware that you don’t care
About the contents of my heart
And so I learned my lesson
Closed our pre-poetic door
And as for sharing souls, my friend
The words they are no more
Apr 27, 2018
Apr 27, 2018 at 2:12 PM UTC
I love you in moments unnoticed
In the spaces between words
Eyes looking upward in thought
In the breaths between stories
I love you in places unknown
In the cracks on the floorboards
Tucked away in corners of the attic
In the shutters on the windowsill
I love you in time undiscovered
In memories lying dormant
Craving to awaken
In the heartbeat of life
Where others love in shouts, I love in whispers
that only we can feel
Face to face
Eye to eye
And in loving you
By sun and moon
My love grows louder by color
Apr 26, 2018
Apr 26, 2018 at 9:14 PM UTC
Little by little
I am
learning
to
let
go
I am learning to let go
Of rehearsed questions and unanswered responses
Of missed opportunities
Expectations and disappointments
Of words not said, feelings not felt, mistakes not rectified
I am learning to free myself from perfection and guilt
Allowing myself to marvel at the chaos of life
And continue to grow amidst the wreckage
I am learning to let go of people
Watching them walk away with smiles and understanding
Accepting that it wasn't our time
And if not in the future
We will meet again in another lifetime
I am learning to let go
Slowly
I am learning to let go
And in letting go
I am learning to hold tighter
Hold faster
Hold fiercer
To all that should never be let go
Apr 26, 2018
Apr 26, 2018 at 3:37 PM UTC
I suppose there will always be a part of me that will wait for you in doorways
Stepping over the threshold
Hesitating
Contemplating
Looking back
Then moving forward
Each time the pause becoming less
Underneath the stairwells of bookstores
I will search for your face in the crowds
And for your footsteps along the shorelines
I will feel your presence in places we used to visit
Perhaps this may never stop
For you were woven into my life as a piece of the fabric
A part of who I was
A force in who I was going to be
You were a friend that I expected for always
Someone to grow alongside myself
But then you turned your head and shut your eyes
Seduced by the promise of a remedy for your lovelessness
A body to temper the loneliness
Leaving me to search for your face through caverns of fog
And wondering why I am so often a second thought for you
I used to be angry
But that potency is fading with time
And someday you will be a memory
Yet in this subsiding bitterness I shall keep your secrets safe
The secrets that drip from your lips and waver in your eyes
You are different than me though, love
And I shall find peace in the comfort that mine were never yours to know
Apr 24, 2018
Apr 24, 2018 at 10:00 PM UTC
Light the stars tonight with me
Oh - light the stars tonight
And we shall lay another day
In moonbeams of the night
And when the sky is cloudy
And our eyes too fogged to see
We will know that in the glow
Is all that we can be
For we view ourselves in darkness
Broken pieces of a whole
But truer yet, lest you forget
There’s stardust in your soul
Apr 24, 2018
Apr 24, 2018 at 1:24 AM UTC
I scribbled some words on the edge of a napkin
Hoping at home they would make sense to read
But all I could see was disjointed confusion
And perhaps that was all that I ever could need
Apr 4, 2018
Apr 4, 2018 at 1:43 AM UTC
A moment suspended
Crystallized like morning dew
Trapped prisms of moonbeams in spherical orbit
Ever swirling in hopeful anticipation
New dreams precipitated
Old dreams awakened
All suspended in a perfect spherical moment
Hovering above trembling hands and shining eyes
In simplified complexity
Mar 31, 2018
Mar 31, 2018 at 8:49 PM UTC
When I needed words, he gave me silence
When I needed quiet, he gave me noise
Yet I have come to rely on his steadfast presence
His chaos - the only grounding force in my life
Mar 26, 2018
Mar 26, 2018 at 11:12 PM UTC