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Parker Jun 2018
The way you dance in my glass reminds me that it’s ok to spill
The way you escape through my smoke comforts me when I decide to leave
The way you cut the steam from my rose allows me to fly away
The way your never home  whispers
We’re all going to die some alone some day
Parker May 2018
I followed the path that had signs to sunflowers
When I arrived, everything was dead
The full moon no longer shines and a dark cloud have been chasing my every step.
Living with sadness is like receiving a broken instrument
A printer with no ink
A car with no wheels
I stopped fighting it
  Existing as a shell of the man I once was shoveling dirt on the man I could of been
Watching the clocks lie
The silence is deafening
and
hope taunts me out of reach
Parker May 2018
Hello poetry really should implement an App?!?
Parker May 2018
Around this time of night some anxious depths hovers over my heart
sprinkled with a hint of resentment
All I asked of you along with your hand
was to not work late shifts
I hide behind traditional value to shy away from the truth
That the pain and worry rise after the sun sets and
my commitment to this marriage leaves me vulnerable in the solitude
always kept by being an honest man
I no longer desire to fill these discomforts with party nights and forgotten names, though I'm searching for someway to displace this carving void
Does this make me broken?
A vulnerable man searching for peace when all is dark and his wife is tending a bar
Serving other broken men who fill there void with liquor and just so happen to be in the comfort of the only woman who can fill mine
The irony just completed its first lap and the lead driver is going in reverse, expecting to crash.
Parker May 2018
Your space of comfort
is discomfortable for me
The hours you're awake
All I want to be is asleep
I fell into an illusion
For some it's a dream
Crashing in this delusion
My eternal scream

Bound by your lies
and the drunks you serve all night
The machine says I'm winning
that is not the case
If these walls could speak they'd yell
Drowning in a cage
For some call it gold
To me, it will flake

Promised hand is just legal paper
A time you promised to be home
Can't get the imagery out of my head
My Sisyphus stone
Substances steal the light I have left
Oh how I wish for my emotions to run dry
I feel truthful when I say I tried my best
Continue in this state of mind I will die
Parker Mar 2018
Aspen Tree, your leaves glance white into the dark.
My mother's hair was never white.

Dandelion, so green is the Ukraine.
My yellow-haired mother did not come home.

Rain cloud, above the well do you hover?
My quiet mother weeps for everyone.

Round star, you wind the golden loop.
My mother's heart was ripped by lead.

Oaken door, who lifted you off your hinges?
My gentle mother cannot return.
Written about his mother after she was shot in a concentration camp after she became to weak to work.
Parker Mar 2018
I found sound sleeping on a bench
Freezing in the empty sky
Pretending it's a poet

The last place you stood no longer exist
and I
forgot that the world is not black and white
It's grey

In a way,
the rain never stops
You never read the signs
and we are all
scared

An un-promised guarantee
A spoken sonnet that lets her dance on it peddles
And at last,
we've all forgot your name
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