Write these lines
Read your comments

then your
lines


get really mixed
feelings

and write
more


the blank lines
are where the universe

talks back
is always laughing

thinks itself
a scribbler too

thinks us
it's lines

really mixed
feelings

this poem contains
a universe

and we both know
you're rep'ing it too

So I end up
talking to myself

A lonely 'verse
writing home


Copyright@2018 Dennis Willis

Offers out
No draw

Nothin'

No purchase
at this depth

at this time

here
to say

alone

it sits like a candle in my head slowly burning the wax of uncertainty
except i don't know when this candle will finish burning
every time i try to blow it out it burns me and i scream in pain
for i am unable to control this candle right now
it has control of me

Our love in the Winter
Did not weather till Spring
As we said our Goodbyes
At the end of a Fling

We are often the
  most critical

Of what we are the
  most guilty of

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2015)

"I'm an open book"
She says

Written in
code.

what does it say about
Him. that so many girls fall
in love with his eyes

I want wake up in a better world
Where hate is no longer on the slate

I want to wake up in a better world
Where migrant caravans aren’t criminalized

I want to wake up in a better world
With less human deaths by guns

I want to wake up in a better world
Without blue states or red states

I want to wake up in a better world
Where my vote counted to make a better world