I'm doing alright, I tell myself
It was a lie, now it's true
Yet I can still fall deep down
I can still feel this blue
It really does get better
How time has flown
Yet this inexplicable sadness
I have not outgrown
I am happy when I laugh
I am relieved when I cry
Yet these years have not depleted
This blue river behind my eyes
Aug 12, 2017
Aug 12, 2017 at 10:12 AM UTC
*Flower in full bloom
Her beauty cast on the dirt
Weighed down by raindrops*
Sep 17, 2016
Sep 17, 2016 at 1:13 PM UTC
In this endless loop
where I'm denied my escape.
Can't leave so I stay.
Sep 1, 2016
Sep 1, 2016 at 12:01 AM UTC
*She stepped into sunlight
Hair a caramel river
She knew I was looking
She just knew
The moment she turned back
And smiled at me
Hit me in the chest like a brick
And just like that
I couldn't stop my smile
My heart wasn't mine
It was hers
Stolen
Like my breath
But that's fine
Because in that moment
She was defining light
She was golden
And that moment was mine
Forever*
Aug 27, 2016
Aug 27, 2016 at 12:43 PM UTC
Tragedy seems unreal,
Like a foreign movie.
I'm only a spectator
Front row for reality.
I see the shooter, the victims.
A hundred hired to act.
Fake blood paints pavements.
The bullets are blanks.
…
*But the bullets pierce
And the blood is warm.
A hundred targets are found.
Few to recover from harm.
There won't be a 'cut!'
No take four or take five.
This is no movie.
A shot takes a life.*
Jun 17, 2016
Jun 17, 2016 at 6:59 AM UTC
wake up to the sun
blink once and the stars are out
another day gone
Jun 15, 2016
Jun 15, 2016 at 7:07 AM UTC
*I can't go; don't make me
There's demons coming up the stairs
Shadows, dark and deadly
I shrink at their greedy glares
I can't move; I can't go
They're crawling on the steps
Up the roof, down below
Right underneath my bed
I can't; they'll get me
Unmake me 'til I'm not who I am
Won't relent; they'll break me
I can't go, please understand*
Jun 6, 2016
Jun 6, 2016 at 1:24 PM UTC
*They hide in shadows.
Reposition. Lie in wait
'Til it's time to strike.*
Apr 12, 2016
Apr 12, 2016 at 9:44 AM UTC
*hellopoetry.com/collection/20186/years/
A few hours pass with the boy still there,
Drawn to his body like he's tethered.
A few more and he's floating in moonlight
But no sleep will bring him comfort.
A small fish catches his restless eye,
A quick shadow against the current's silver.
Closer, the boy sees sharp teeth bared.
The fish eyes his corpse like its dinner.
A desperate NO escapes his throat
As he scrambles to stop the scavenger.
He cannot, and he cries out in frustration,
His sobs joining the sounds of nature.
Ethereal tears fall on ethereal hands
As despair morphs into very real anger.
Apr 10, 2016
Apr 10, 2016 at 11:05 PM UTC
*My headphones are turned up high
And I'm trapped in a musical trance.
I'm unseeing, under a spell.
My digits do a little tap dance.
They deem me a daydreamer
As the beats bore into my being.
The rhythm refuses to release me
From this great grasp I'm gladly enduring
Because sometimes surrender is sweeter
Than fruitlessly fighting to be free.
And if your captor can cause such comfort,
Then how is it an actual adversary?*
Mar 28, 2016
Mar 28, 2016 at 3:32 AM UTC