Train horns pierce the muggy night.
Persistent in their cacophony.
They shake the walls and sound the time.
Like midnight roosters.
I shift beneath my stuffy sheets.
Roused from fitful sleep.
My eyes move to the bedroom window.
Drawn to the alure of night.
The moonlight has me in a trance.
Stray beams beckon me.
Dancing light to call me closer.
Through intermittent haze.
Now I feel the fog behind my eyes.
The night's hold has loosened.
I drift away until I'm awoken by birds,
Or the siren songs of boxcars.
Sep 13, 2020
Sep 13, 2020 at 12:35 AM UTC
Its amazing how we pass time
Cocooned
In our own beings so that
Nothing
Matters more than the next
Minute
And the freckles on our hands
Possess
More pull than magnetic
Ends
Of planets spinning with hushed
Breaths
Which may soon gasp the cursed
Smog
Of our corrupted souls
Sep 10, 2020
Sep 10, 2020 at 10:56 PM UTC
You didn't have to salt my fields
after the war
The devastation had been wrought
cowardly crops
Turn away from the bright sunlight
dying slowly
Sep 9, 2020
Sep 9, 2020 at 10:53 PM UTC
Foggy skies lie like a comforting blanket
The one I wrapped myself in at night.
Or an omnipresent, uncomfortable haze.
Like the smoke from your cigarette.
My eyes keep shifting views,
Until my muddled brain can’t handle it.
I’m thinking through your glasses,
Empty, but tequila soaked.
I can’t decide if I miss the sun.
The heat was nice to be sure,
But so many times I was burnt.
My skin charred and red.
You tell me to wear sunscreen.
That way I won’t get hurt,
But no matter how many layers,
The sun keeps marking my skin.
You like the clouds I know.
It’s easier when they hang around.
You hang around like a weight
I wish I were a cloud.
Mar 27, 2019
Mar 27, 2019 at 9:46 PM UTC
It came to pass that in a fiery blaze
You were born
Little being with the WORLD against you
Tiny spark
With only the tools of your own making
Rock and stick
Teeth for talking and hands for creating
So unlike
Yet so similar to those before you
I felt it
The shudders and shaking at your coming
The whole WORLD
Pausing for a second to stop and stare
Baby hands
Reaching towards the heavens to catch the sun
A face with
Intelligent eyes, that burned like your path
What are you
And what has your coming brought to the WORLD?
Feb 8, 2019
Feb 8, 2019 at 7:37 PM UTC
Emotions are a blessing to me
To you they are the worst of curses
I cry and they gather to let go
You cling to them to feel their embrace
The cold of winter would bite at you
I wear a jacket safe from the snow
The lancing spears of despair gather
I watch the icicles in your eyes
Once I would have given my jacket
But many times you have refused it
Till both of us stood still and frozen
You hurt me to see the snowflakes melt
Do you still remember the summer
I followed you to white sand beaches
You dipped your toes in cold water
I smiled for you were bravery
Back then I was merely the duckling
You forged paths through flower gardens
My small missteps painted me a ****
Yet you dont seem to remember then
Emotions were a blessing to you
I laughed to see you in the snow
You wore a coat of gathered crystals
And I followed you for your embrace
Sep 5, 2017
Sep 5, 2017 at 6:38 PM UTC
Ive been packing up my memories in an enormous box
One of those old wooden trunks with heavy metal locks
Ive been thinking on the past and disregarding the pain
Ive looked at all the photographs; the image is the same
Ive shoved it in a corner, in my attic and my mind
A dark and dank forgotten place where it is hard to find
Yet sometimes I will think on it and dig out my old key
To look on my mistakes and know now that I am free
Apr 17, 2017
Apr 17, 2017 at 5:49 PM UTC
Hey dork with the beautiful eyes,
How long will it take to realize,
You'll be fine, don't be surprised,
Problems disappear like water dries,
No more worries, no more fears,
Boy don't let me see you tears,
Your heart holds the future and steers,
Away from the discord that it hears.
You've got this, yes I'm sure,
Your beautiful soul will be your cure,
I see brilliance in your future,
I believe in you.
Feb 22, 2017
Feb 22, 2017 at 8:20 PM UTC
An uncomfortable crawling sensation,
Strange breaks in the conversation.
A question sits in your eyes,
One that your laugh can't disguise.
Half truths we hardly mention,
Only spoken for the attention.
This gut feeling may be wrong,
So I'll try to play along.
Your idolizing devotions,
Spawn my guilty emotions.
So maybe I will be fine,
Lying to this heart of mine.
Jan 5, 2017
Jan 5, 2017 at 1:43 AM UTC
Yesterday I asked myself,
Do I care about the pain?
The utterances from you mouth,
The tears that fell like rain.
Yesterday your face was red,
From things I couldn't feel,
Your sadness was your world,
For me it was hardly real.
Yesterday I sat and watched,
As you tried to set it straight,
And while I had been there,
It was a forgotten date.
Yesterday brought pain it's true,
My mind filled with regret,
It echoed with the thought of you,
Until tomorrow I forget.
Oct 30, 2016
Oct 30, 2016 at 11:55 AM UTC