Stop getting so
excited,
this is when
you let yourself
down

That is the easiest thing to break
something that is hardest to build*

you took your time with your words
since there was little time to say

what you had to, you drew out
each syllable, a razor blade

long and thin like your fingers
soon your sentence would leave

with it everything you wished for
and you will arrive with nothing.

Dear man in the moon,

all I wish for
is that when it ends,
you might tell me
I fought bravely.

You do what
you have to.
Even though part
of you dies a little

So many children
are products of science
So few are
born from love

I saw
my reflection
in grandfather's
   old whiskey glass

                            when I
                                was not
                                     looking.