The years and tasks have taken their toll
Now gray in my beard and shine on my skull
But the nicotine hits, and helps pass the time
Still feel something missing, like I'm out of a rhyme
The friends and music that once filled the air
Now silent, replaced by the burdens we bear
But I've come to accept what the years have unfurled
The past may be gone, but I've got my own world
For in their small hands, I see a love so true
Their future is bright and it makes mine too
Jan 25, 2025
Jan 25, 2025 at 4:43 PM UTC
A void vastly expanding.
Encapsulating every thought
That tumbles inward.
Is it wrong
Wanting, waiting for
Fractured, feigned conversations
Converging conspicuously?
So I can say, “I was right all along.”
Feb 3, 2021
Feb 3, 2021 at 10:21 PM UTC
Creeping and crawling
like grub worms under bark —
Under the surface
Eating without cause
Wake up as an immovable object —
Inside looking out
Oct 4, 2020
Oct 4, 2020 at 9:07 AM UTC
Home, late after a hard day of work
Kitchen dimly lit with a night light
Eyes adjusting — out of the corner
Notice the dump truck left after a hard day of play
A beautiful reminder of my greatest achievement
Sep 29, 2020
Sep 29, 2020 at 9:30 AM UTC
Is it another year so soon?
My little man, my dear big boy
as time goes on it begins to wound
yet still there remains a lasting joy.
Surprise hugs and silly kisses
shrink my world to you and I
and time’s wounding power decreases
as you teach me to deny
all I have and all I desire
to give it up, to self forget.
This is a truth that reaches higher,
to become content as vignette
Sep 10, 2020
Sep 10, 2020 at 1:33 PM UTC
Always liked things a little bit sad
Too much joy can make you go mad
Seems things are more real when that way
Like grey clouds on a summer’s day
When we grow old
Yes when we grow old
Say you’ll be with me
And I know we’ll be ok
Apr 13, 2020
Apr 13, 2020 at 4:18 PM UTC
Sinking further down as the dregs of the day come to pass--
painful, palpable drudgery.
There will be no recognition from anyone--
endlessly hoping tomorrow will somehow prove to be different
insanity they call it.
Nevertheless, I go -- down the road to start again.
Jan 27, 2020
Jan 27, 2020 at 4:34 PM UTC
Distant cries over a vast expanse
— impuissant
Loved ones,
But there is nothing you can do
Who can cross the void?
Space and time make a mockery of men
—utter darkness
Hope dashed on the rocks
Jan 23, 2020
Jan 23, 2020 at 12:14 PM UTC
Snow falling on a hard night
Ice forming on the rocky terrain
The man feels the chill in his bones
But just then — a thought enters
A memory. Bones still cold, but his
Heart — it was warm.
Jan 14, 2020
Jan 14, 2020 at 4:26 PM UTC
You are such a marvelous gift
miracle in plain sight.
My thoughts of you always uplift,
you are my beam of light.
Some disbelieve in miracles,
but with having you here,
I could never be cynical.
—intangible made near
Your mom and I have tried and tried,
but time and time again,
our blessing, an empty womb hides —
our joy made porcelain
Though, this pain has seeded such bliss.
Sown in tears, raised with mirth
Hill flowing sweet wine blessedness
No more loss, gone the dearth
Dec 20, 2019
Dec 20, 2019 at 10:17 PM UTC