All my life I wanted you,
Desperate for the life of you,
Holding to the dream of you,
Dear daughter.
All these days I'm loving you,
Desperate to help all of you,
Hoping that the life of you,
Discovers, dear daughter
All the dreams you dare to dream,
Dream those dreams with all your hope.
Hope and find that life that's yours,
Dear daughter.
Apr 16, 2015
Apr 16, 2015 at 11:49 AM UTC
In it all
Through it all
When it all comes crashing
In
it find
through it find
When you find the meaning
In
it know
That life will go
On through it all... with you in it.
Apr 16, 2015
Apr 16, 2015 at 11:41 AM UTC
When I was poor you fed me
words of encouragement.
When I was young you held me
accountable and true.
When I was gone you called me
Feb 28, 2014
Feb 28, 2014 at 11:38 AM UTC
Somewhere in the loose change you find it- your brokenness.
Somewhere in the soapy bath water you feel it- your uncleanliness.
Somewhere in the setting sun you see it- you're ending.
Nowhere in your life can you fathom it- your importance.
Feb 28, 2014
Feb 28, 2014 at 11:15 AM UTC
Somewhere, under the bent branches,
heavy with snow, waits a whisper.
A whisper of all that space has seen-
the wolf sifting slowly through drifts of snow.
the deer pausing, alert and eying the depths of the wood.
centuries of life moving through this clearing.
And the wind will come. And the wind will carry the whisper.
Carry it to the ear of a poet that will
write the wolf to life, and lower, once again, the deer's head
to graze.
And the centuries that had lived in that clearing will be given
words and life. And the centuries more
will hear the whisper and know the clearing.
Dec 14, 2013
Dec 14, 2013 at 8:06 PM UTC
'Give us this day',
just this day. No more.
'Give us this day',
my only love. Only her.
Just this day.
Tomorrow's are foolish.
Full of nothings.
This day, this one with this
One. That's all.
'Give us' my love, my friend,
my wife, my life, the mother,
my only. 'This day'.
Just this.
Nov 18, 2013
Nov 18, 2013 at 3:10 PM UTC
I loved you the other day
as I watched you die.
And still today, as you cheat death,
I love you the same.
You live like anyone else-
dying with each exhalation.
And I watch you die, each day.
I feel the time we share slip past.
I feel the heart that beats lose out.
I feel the idea of us grow slight.
I watched you dying today-
sleeping soundly as I cinched my
tie- sheets pulled tight as if
an image of sound contentedness.
I watched you dying today-
somewhere in you, a dream. Somewhere
in you, a heart beating- carrying you
along like the rhythm of a drum.
I watched you dying today-
as I died along with you in time.
Nov 12, 2013
Nov 12, 2013 at 8:59 AM UTC
Go Find yourself.
Find you.
I hope you're Finding happy.
Get your Finding life together.
Get Found.
Nov 4, 2013
Nov 4, 2013 at 11:43 AM UTC
I'm not writing for you,
you reader.
How could I?
I'm not writing to prove
myself. I know already.
I'm only writing.
To tell the pen to
work. To tell the cursor
to never blink a breath.
To tell something I cannot
tell the disappointed clerk,
or disillusioned worker,
or disheartened lover.
To write. To add
permanence to an
otherwise irretrievable
thought that will be lost,
I know it will,
like the passion,
the illusion,
the heart.
Nov 4, 2013
Nov 4, 2013 at 11:37 AM UTC
It's the ship of
she, and she, and she
that I need to steady.
But I am only this one man,
and father to all three.
And I'm only half sure
I'm half right
half the time. But
she, and she, and she- trust me.
Trust me, they do.
I see it in their eyes
their smiles
their sleep.
And I'm only thinking about
what happened today
and guessing about tomorrow. But still
they love me. I feel she, she, and she
always will.
And I feel the weight of this steady,
though heavy and I'll never hold.
And the she, and the she, and the she, of ships
will trust in the things they're told.
But how do you steady the she and she,
And the she she'll grow to be?
Whoever never taught me
owes me an explanation.
I'll steady her the best I can,
and know at the very least,
the ships of she, and she, and she
will get the best of me.
Oct 23, 2013
Oct 23, 2013 at 9:47 PM UTC