My parents are just people.
All the things I felt they should have been
Maybe they should
But they were people
And they weren’t
I needed what they didn’t know to give
And now I, a person,
Have failed to give my children so much that I should have.
And the best way to reach forgiveness for your parents
Is to be a parent.
Nov 16, 2020
Nov 16, 2020 at 1:14 AM UTC
There are plenty of people in my world
From whom I have to hide my tears.
If you love me
You will let me show you my pain.
If you are my friend
I can tell you my truth.
Mar 10, 2019
Mar 10, 2019 at 12:05 AM UTC
It's been one year since I lost you.
You went so fast. Just 18 days and you were gone.
If I needed advice, you were the one I called.
When I was hurt, I talked with you.
Nobody has ever understood me like you did.
Even when we disagreed--and we did, strongly sometimes--you were on my side.
I want my daddy back.
Mar 9, 2019
Mar 9, 2019 at 9:52 PM UTC
We are all accessories
In your story.
None of us exist
Except as we augment you.
That is why
We will all be outdated and discarded
When next year's model
Of you
Features a new charging port.
Mar 9, 2019
Mar 9, 2019 at 8:32 PM UTC
Why do I still love you?
I'm not sure.
You don't actually want me.
If you did
all these excuses of loyalty, of duty,
Would be reasons why you still talk to her
Reasons for picking up the occasional gallon of milk,
Not reasons for staying.
I'm not interested in being the other woman
So your very presence hurts me.
But you don't understand why.
You want me to have only smiles for you,
Never make you uncomfortable.
I am a person. I feel.
If you don't want to know my feelings, why do you ask?
I can only come to this conclusion:
You want to be loved by me.
You love knowing that I think of you,
Want you,
Dream of you.
But only to the extent that it doesn't inconvenience you.
For you, I am an accessory.
Don't you know that if you fail to adequately charge your accessories, the batteries are permanently damaged?
You are killing my love, one conversation at a time.
Mar 9, 2019
Mar 9, 2019 at 8:25 PM UTC
It's raining
And I'm outside
Waiting for you
Because you asked.
Why?
Jan 15, 2019
Jan 15, 2019 at 9:20 PM UTC
you took every minute particle of my love
each molecule of energy
I ceased to exist
except in relation to you
and I was happier than I had ever been.
so when I knew that your brother
was growing inside me
I thought there would be no love
no me
to share with him.
but some time, some how
entire new universes of love
of existence
exploded into being
for him,
for you
for us.
Dec 20, 2018
Dec 20, 2018 at 3:23 PM UTC
the stream of melting snow
I hear it all night long
and all day.
white disappears, and reveals the
broken chair
fallen branches
lost glove
and abandoned rake
that the first snowfall blanketed
and accumulation hid from view
since December.
the falling snow didn't remove it
and the stream of melting snow
doesn't wash it away.
I have to clean up my mess
myself.
Dec 20, 2018
Dec 20, 2018 at 11:34 AM UTC
I am the universe
I am the love
I am the power
I am the wisdom
I am the pain
I am the loss
I am the broken
I am the death
I am the recovery
I am the new growth
I am the fruit
I am the abundance
So are you.
Dec 20, 2018
Dec 20, 2018 at 11:23 AM UTC
You think that you have beaten me
with your scheming and lies
blame me for your mistakes
take credit for my successes.
I am reduced, you are increased
so you think that I am defeated.
But I am fierce.
I am unbreakable.
When you bend me I gather force
to return and knock you down.
More evil than you have tried to break me
They are gone and I grow strong.
More devious than you have not outsmarted me
you are nothing compared to me.
You think that you have beaten me,
but you have empowered me
to break free from your sphere
and soar.
Dec 20, 2018
Dec 20, 2018 at 11:18 AM UTC