Status quo
A cross to bare
Marvel in your majesty

And tame the belligerent beast

Uncanny depictions
Sprinkled with hope
Laced with lies

Of the other

Weighing the pros and cons

Home or
Thee alternative
Pick a hand wisely

The shadows between the stars

Red clouds of sulfur
Cannon ball run
When the dust

Finally settles it’s score

Dual personalities divided
Who’s side
Will you ultimately pick

There can only be one

Clear winner
In the end
My alter ego whispers

Violently without grace

As my biggest supporter
Is pleading for my release
Purpose for my pain

Seems like such

A loaded heavy question
Passings in time
Circling back

Permanent formation
Settling right in
The current state of affairs

Is immensely gratifying

Decisive overwhelming choice
Victory won
As my enemy

Retreats because of all
Your glory alone

Foreclosure A
Carapace of what could
Have been came and went

Forgetting to Forgive

The blasphemy All of your
Borderline behaviors
Addicted like a leach out for blood

Spineless hypocrisies

Smothered in self reflection
The gray
Never comforted

Time almost lost me

A household
I wasn’t very fond of
Almost took me down

In flames with it

A penny for my thoughts
Endless ~ Vouchers
My House or horrors

The frailest of conditions stained

Without a care
For my well being
Traces of non refundable heartaches

Past the point of no return  

I’ve got a ledger
Full of receipts
Been to the depths

Of Hell and Back around the block

A hundred times
Closed off
You all became way

Too careless with my protection

Closure was never
Gonna take place
Your carelessness almost killed me

I’ll admit that on my own life

Passing memories
Like a fleet of chariots
You all can no longer

Be permanent
Fixtures on my screen
In my biased opinion WE ARE DONE

I have zero
Expectations
No bursting bubble

Only time will tell

Just the chance to
Know you better  
Speaking freely

Comfortably like riding a bike

To a stranger
In hopes of us becoming
A blossoming friendship

Lets see where the road

Might take us
From the heart
Expressing my thoughts

A peaking curiosity

Like kid in a candy store
Ready to create
Creative juices

Flowing in rhymes

Getting to know you
As the time goes by
Putting pen

Too paper let a voice be heard

Oceans apart
We have one thing
In common

We write and love poetry

I popped In
To pay you
A compliment on one of your pieces

But then the intrigue

Set in
And gave me hope
That even though

There’s a distance between us

That we can grow together
In friendship
And become the best

OF PEN PALS

Mirrored ~ Piquancies
Out of my hands
Not frequent enough

The bite felt around the world

Self infatuations

Abrupt melancholy
Receding Intimidation
Almost won out

Bleeding prisms no more shackles

I almost threw in the towel
And waved
My white flag

My own faults mended

Leading to my
Glory road tour
Unlocking the cellar door

I’ve come to realize

Breaking bread
Swinging for the fences
Now I play for a different team

My debt has been fulfilled

Beginning again
Let that corrupt vessel
Sail and sink

To the bottom of the ocean

I needed  
A new area code
The realizations spoke loudly

And a transformation began

Out of body
Experience
I woke from my stupor

Alive clear headed ~ Sober

And humbled beyond measure
No comparison
To where I’d been left for dead

I Scratched and clawed

My way back
To the surface
Longevity I’ve outlived

All expectations and then some

Survived the trenches
Of hell torches put out
Coherent speech flows freely

Legible writing spreads
Swept under the rug
Past ordeals bounced

Restoring order taking back
What was always mine
It’s all starting to make sense now

UNLIMITED CLARITY
DAYLIGHT
A FULL HEART

WERE BY FAR
HIS GREATEST GIFTS

HE COULD HAVE EVER
GIVEN ME
AND I AM GLAD HE UNTIED

MY HANDS
AND PUT IT ALL
BACK WHERE IT BELONGS

Sadness hardens
My heart
Searching for a soft
Place to land

Runaround and back again

Some days can
Bend you
Sideways and throw a wrench

In your spokes

Awaiting my destiny’s calling
You assist me
In ALL I do

Step by step every breath I take

Your the answer to my calls
The solver of my
Biggest problems

They are never to big

Scaling mountains is nothing new
Parting waters
You take on

My heaviest burdens

Constantly proving your worth
Please hold them for me
And lessen my load

Far too often

We fail to see
That which matters most
Imagining a paradise

So great and plentiful

Speaking into existence
Safer passages to travel
Hope for all

Healing the brokenness

Drawing a line In the sand
Making a wish
Without saying a word

Hoping it can

Come true and flourish  
Believing that  
Divine intervention

Will intervene On your behalf

Help heal the fragile soul
May the great
Messiah lift you up to thee light

Give you strength

In mass abundance
My deepest
Well wishes

And blessings a plenty to you

Take nothing for granted
Today may be
All you have

The unfair circumstances

Don’t often make sense
Talk about bad timing
A guiding light

May you find comfort in knowing

He’s always
By your side through
The toughest trials

And most extreme circumstances

My heart is heavy
And my prayers
Will always be with you

That’s a for certain promise

The unfortunate events life
May throw at us
Curve ball after curve

Ball to test our will

May seem so unfair
Hard to understand
In the present moments

We don’t have a crystal ball

To predict
The future with
All we can do is give are all

And hope the pieces fall in line

But sometimes
That’s just not the case  
Thee sad unfortunate

Hard TRUTHS OF LIFE  

The PEAKS and VALLEYS
OF THIS LIFE
WILL AWAYS BE THAT

In CONSTANT MOTION

DOESN’T MAKE THEM
ANY EASIER
TO COMPREHEND AND ACCEPT

AND ASSIST US  IN LESSENING

THE BLOWS IF EVEN A LITTLE

Binaural
The soft sounds
Eyes fuller illuminating

So incredibly~ inviting

Where the seas

Part and the
Tides shift
I know you’ll always be

Good things envelope hope

Come in small
Packages
No doubt in my mind

Love has no boundaries

It’s endless
Friendships evolve
Out of a simple moment of chance

Nightfall is quietly lifted

The Magnificent
Sun rises again
The air is so full of precious life

The spaces between us

Don’t matter
Let’s fill in
The blanks and grey areas

Grow how we so choose

Your simple gestures
Kindly warm my heart
So fully and give me strength

I know just how genuine

You are
And I will never
Ghost you the thought

Wouldn’t even come to the surface

Not sure how
Or why
But are paths crossed

For a reason

And I’m glad
There’s only one version of you

Because that’s more then plenty

To accommodate a simple man
Like ME