Choo Choo!
The train of thought
Incoming!
No no!
It missed its stop!
The train is gone….
Who are you?

Fly little birdie, fly!
Tell that ***** to get lost
He'll regret the day he saw your face
Or face the hand from which you came

I never really wondered
Why exactly I fall
Or how the lights turn on
At the flip of a switch
No, I never cared much for physics
I would rather read a book
Maybe dabble in biology
But the high school horrors!
They have gravitated to me
Now I sit through physics
Confused
So utterly lost
But I have learned something
Very useful
Did you know that when you
Push a teacher down the stairs
Your grades will soar?
Maybe I will be a physicist when I grow up

One amp
Two amps
Three amps
Useless
Nine amps
Ten amps
Eleven amps
Come on!
Thirty amps
Forty amps
Fifty amps
More!
One hundred Amps
Two hundred amps
Three hundred amps
He’s gone

Bonzai Tree
Hang me from your palm
Comfort me with your leaves
Blanket me in your bark
And sing me a lullaby, so sweet
Your twigs will sway
So here I can lay
Finally a peace, with your melody
I’ll stay here forever in your embrace
My final goodbye,
Bonzai Tree

My math teacher leaves the door open
All year round
And I can feel the breeze in my hair
While I write my equations
And I can’t help but smile behind my mask
Because this is the freest I’ve felt
Since I decided I was grown
And didn’t need to enjoy the things
That a child enjoys
Yet here I am, so overzealous
Because the wind sings so beautifully
And I can enjoy it to my heart’s content

I love the way mint leaves smell
Midsummer
In the church garden
When I’m with you
Smiling too hard
My cheeks always hurt
After I’m with you
Although
It’s the only proof
That my mind wasn’t playing tricks
That I really saw you there
In the church
Garden
While you sat on our bench
Nibbling our lovely
Mint leaves
It was really bizarre
Like I was back in 2013
When you always made me smile
And my cheek muscles never got
Tired
It made me so scared to blink
Cause I knew you’d be gone
Again
Like a shriveled mint leaf
Blowing along the
Midsummer wind

I remember that day
Sunny with a breeze
Yet you stood there standing
In a jacket at the garden
Though
I never got the chance to ask why
Because that’s when you noticed
Me standing there watching
And so you dug into your big jacket pocket
And pulled out some seeds
Oh, but I was so confused at the time
Who are you, garden girl?
But I never asked
I took the seeds, and we started digging
The heat beat down on us
But you just smiled
I used to hate the sun
Until I saw that smile
Once we had our seed buried
We watered it and then
You stood and held out your hand
I can’t help but smile at the memory
Of that garden girl
So nice to the rabbit who’d have ruined
Her garden
Although it was against all odds
Our flower grew so tall
A shining sunflower
Reminds me of someone
After that day
I cant remember being out of that garden
My favorite place
After all, there’s a garden girl there
Keeping me company throughout my days
But recently I can’t help but notice
That sometimes my garden girl cries
She cries over her garden
Soiling flowers as she goes
Flowers don’t need any salt, garden girl!
So I went and I asked
Why she watered her garden with sadness
Yet all she did was smile
And walk on over to our flower
OUR sunflower
I couldn’t believe my eyes
As a single teardrop sang through the air
And kissed one of our beautiful petals
I couldn’t even watch
As our petal shriveled up
And fell to the ground
That’s when I realized
This lush, enchanting garden
Was my garden girl’s graveyard

In my smile
You are my 180 degree
In my eyes
You are the moonlight upon my sea
In my words
You are the beat to my melody
In my heart
You are the quartet of my symphony
In my mind
You are the answer to my mystery
In my life
You are the stars in my galaxy

Up the path, I traveled
On an old, slouching hill
Though the truth had been unknown
To what it would reveal

Time seemed to slither
Through deceit as I wavered
My confusion leaving my mind
tired, and unbidden

One plain stone after another
Surely, all I had seen
Though there really was no telling
As if I‘d tread within a dream

Steps overlapped like the shadows
Left and right, all the same
For where I had been was not one path
But many, individuals erased

The day gave but once
Though countless nights I had surrendered
And whatever my previous purpose
Was forgotten, whispered in the wind

At dusk
My eyelids fell
Leaving me
Curious

In no time
My eyes had to wander
So up went my lids
Shocked

Just a second passed
I took a look around
The stormy wind blew
Distressed

A moment later
I saw the world tilt
I flew onto the deck
Confused

I was a second too late
As the water soaked my lungs
Salty ocean blades
Overwhelming

As hours went by
I flailed amidst the sea
Blue in the face
Terrified

By dawn, I saw
life, within a wreath
Swimming around an island
Relieved

It could have been days
As I trudged to land
Finally, I reached salvation
Desperately

Then time stopped
And my eyes flew back open
Revealing my room
Awoken

A shoestring girl
Curled up in an attic
Who’s remembering a family
That’s picture-perfect
Using the dust
To form a father
A lively one
Who’s supportive
That hugs a doll
Made of scraps
A mother
Who loves
Without condition
That’s always scolding
Two brothers
A pair of woodchips
Who run all-day
On a concrete drive
Which lays in front
Of a cookie-cutter
Home
Whose neighbors laugh
And play outside
Where everyone smiles
Free of worries
About the future
Or what will change
Because the memories
Of that shoestring girl
Were morphed to be
Picture-perfect
Through an adolescent
Mind
Full of ignorance