Love costs a fee
When it comes to love nothing is free
We are all incarcerated by emotions we can’t control
Tears that always want to pour
Hearts that skip beats like a child hopping over puddles
Stuck in a love riddle
we can never solve
Eventually we become free
But the price of freedom with love
Leads to lonely hearts
Sleepless nights
Nervousness fornicates with the mind
As it births doubt, pain and emotional torture
Regretting why you over drafted on love
by loving longer, hurting longer
What you fought for you have no longer

Mask
The mask is breaking,
I can't keep this crooked smile anymore.
I'm trying to hold on but the more I fight it,
the quicker I'm tearing apart.
These pills aren't helping.
The mask may prevent others from seeing my true emotions,
but I can't close my heart to things I don't want to feel.
The sad part is I feel nothing
-Pearl A

father
an misunderstood phenomenon
a role forced him by nature
to be caretaker
never tired, taking responsibility of children's
though daughters alone understood the real meaning
Seeing a responsible father with few children's was like
One River fills many wells....