Your body is falling in reverse
As your lips start to tremble,
Each touch a whisper in the wind
Each kiss a word not spoken.

Love is that unexplainable gift,
That seems to fall from the stars unchanging,
You get lost in its tight embrace
And your heart is never the same

When they beat you blind and senceless
And your heart turns forever cold,
Your lips cant speak the words
Even though you need to let go.

You long for the pain to stop
Each blow digging you deeper
Into the fear brimmed hole your trapped in
And the pain only lasts

As long as she sees fit.

No matter how damaged I feel
No matter how broken my spirit is
No matter how much pain I go through
I still lift my weary fingers and try to fix you
As much as I want to cry with you
Someone has to stay strong for the both of us
I even break pieces of myself off to add them to you
Because you need them
I let myself fall apart when I know I could fix myself
Because I’m too busy fixing you
My heart is torn, battered, bruised, broken
Yet it is still warm
Sometimes I feel I care too much for you
And not enough about myself
But I can’t help it
I care so much about others
Friends, family, strangers
But its killing me slowly
Helping them carry their weight on my shoulders
I smile at them as we walk together but under my clothes
The weight of my own problems still pull me down
I am emotionally drained
But I don’t show them that
Why show them my sorrow?
I already worked so hard to get them to smile
Why drag them into my problems when I know they already have more than they could handle
So I walk alone
Forever shackled down with my problems and the problems of anyone else who seeks my help
It’s so ironic how the only thing that keeps my heart warm and going
Is the same thing that is slowly killing it

Sticks and stones may break her bones
But words will give her doubt
When she stands in front of the mirror,
Wishing her stomach didn't poke out
Sticks and stones may break her bones
But words will give her doubt
When she goes to the gym
And tries working out
Sticks and stones may break her bones
But words will give her doubt
As she begins to stop eating,
And days later, blacks out


Don't play with fire is good advice, they knew
So they played with words
Thought it was okay
Obviously, they had not looked from her point of view

As the water hit my back
The sun hit her face
It had been a long night,
The dawn was quiet
We showered together
After our passionate morning
And she washed my hair
And I drank my beer
We were undistracted
I wanted to say I love you too
But I could not ruin the moment

I

COULDN'T

SEE

YOUR

LOVE

THROUGH

EYES,

HEART

FOR

MATTER !!

Nothing in this alley to crow
about—backboard and bent hoop
leans against an old refrigerator.

Over at   McMillin’s place
bags of garbage pile atop
a turquoise Chrysler.  

I’d give the family a pick
and shovel   if they bury
their old basset after it dies;

it’ll probably keel,
the first cold day
of 2017.  

My boots like this alley
even if my eyes don’t,
it hasn’t seen

a snowplow this winter
and, why should
it?