Given out in high school
for Nothing
peer selected nominees
for Nothing
for being Nothing
but a pair of cool shoes
and a fake smile that hides your bitten tongue
given to the best dressed
most arrests
opinionless
children
seeking to grow up to be
Nothing

Let's take one
like a thief would take jewels
or a tired mother would a nap
cheap sunglasses
and spare change
counting dimes for gas
and nickels to tip the waitress
barefoot
radio on
blasting ancient crooners
or classic rock
going fuzzy every hour or so
as we leave
every new home
we make

You'd think
that perhaps
people would look
older
or talk
older
eventually
but they don't
and it is very
disappointing
to think that after all of this
time
people still believe
they are just
people
to me

Take back the walls crumbled
and rebuild them
not with Bricks and Mortal
but with Dreams and Fire
for who then would dare tear the down?

Green is the color
of envy
I have been told

How many green eyed girls tire
of being
the temptress?
never are we the
Innocent
or the Sweet

We are too dark to be blue
and too light to be chocolate brown
and too decided in our pigments to be hazel
Is green the color of envy
because we envy what is green?

I didn't think so
I too like to talk to you

I love you in your silence
you wear so often
but never so completely that
I cannot hear your whispers
as air and sleep and dreams
intermingle
where is it that you go?

Ink and Skin
a permanent reminder
of lines and color
rudimentary lines and colors
a sacrifice to memory
all drawings in the end
turning back to dust