In your hands you held my pain.
Each paper shell that I tore through
Glistened in the sunlit rain,
Endlessly being made anew.
Jul 3, 2025
Jul 3, 2025 at 4:57 PM UTC
I stood before you, flesh peeled back
Every trembling heartbeat showing.
You placed a gloved hand on my cheek,
soft and tender, left me unknowing.
Jun 25, 2025
Jun 25, 2025 at 1:37 PM UTC
Last night I poured a cup of tea
For every problem wrong with me.
And when the list of guests was up,
For me was left an empty cup.
Jun 23, 2025
Jun 23, 2025 at 1:37 PM UTC
Someone looked into my heart
As if I spoke my mind through him
Someone touched my hand and felt
Beyond insensate gloves of skin
Someone looked behind my face
His recognition crystalline
Someone looked into my heart
Someone noticed me within
Apr 5, 2025
Apr 5, 2025 at 1:45 PM UTC
Gifts in utero, or perhaps vice?
Primordial blessings formed with a price
Watch the hourglass turn, never to come around
Star children all burn up before they touch the ground
It’s time to take your formless shape
Opalescence often fades
The rest of us they all call names
But I have far to go, so far to fall
May 25, 2023
May 25, 2023 at 2:35 AM UTC
Let me thank your fingertips,
Firm caress against my lips,
Please accept this loving gift,
Yours to do with as you wish.
Persistent touch around my neck,
It keeps me in your gentle grip.
Paint a garden on my skin,
Dewdrops on a rosy flush,
Strokes to wear the canvas thin,
Make me pure in willing blush.
Apr 30, 2021
Apr 30, 2021 at 3:59 PM UTC
On the longest, darkest night,
To pass the aching countdown until dawn,
We lit a candle to give us light,
A gentle flame to burn until our agonies were gone.
With wordless prayer upon my lips,
Of moonlight skin on flowing sheets,
In all the life that it has given,
Never did scarlet taste so sweet.
A path of blossoms in the dark,
Bloomed from worship of mouth on skin,
To beckon Death with gentle fingers,
Tell me, how could this be sin?
Let me soak up your burning blush against my skin as you lie with me,
Let me tell you
It is with you, my love, that I am clean;
It is like this when we are free.
Dec 30, 2019
Dec 30, 2019 at 1:34 AM UTC
He told me all the wonders of the world,
All the smoke-filled ponderings and philosophies,
Yet he himself was but a wretched worm.
Young but wary,
I’d walk past the mushroom without a bite,
And walk into the flower garden level headed.
Drawn as I was to the roses,
Lovely hues,
Too classic for so whimsical a place.
But oh what a pleasant surprise to be serenaded by a pretty stargazer.
Who trilled in lilting soprano,
Blossoms rounded in the curve of treble clef,
Shrill and wonderful
Such that even my skin listened
And what would I give to linger in the garden,
But the journey and path continue on.
After all, the smirking cat said nothing about staying,
Perhaps the smile will carry on.
Oct 30, 2019
Oct 30, 2019 at 3:27 PM UTC
A click of a lock at curfew cut off the chaos of the day,
The last pulse in the longest piece we’d had to play,
Stillness and silence until tomorrow’s dawn.
Until a string broke in the room,
A final sigh before the creak of drying wood,
The trio rocked and murmured ‘til my tears subsided.
The Sultan would spare the enchantress,
But I still wept, because I knew
That ten doors down, in her own prison,
Scheherazade was weeping too.
Aug 4, 2019
Aug 4, 2019 at 1:05 PM UTC
I may never know
What lies behind the veil each night.
I may never know
If pain or paradise await my mind,
If I will dream of milk and honey
Or run from hellhounds endlessly.
I may never know
What lies in store for me each night,
So I can toss and turn
As every day grows long and bleak,
But I can’t stay awake forever
For everyone must sleep.
Apr 9, 2019
Apr 9, 2019 at 12:04 PM UTC