Trapped
within the confinements
of self built
walls

I am both prisoner

and jailer...


a cell without a door

a skyline without a window

Visited by faceless voices
my only hope
of escape

Is You.

I earned your love...

then spent it

upon bed sheets.

Ink my skin with all the words I cannot speak.

Another gust of wind,
A shiver down my spine
The page turns,
And the story continues
My imagination runs wild
When my eyes find the sky,
The clouds take form.
Ghosts of my past,
They illustrate my thoughts
As I watch in agony
From the leaves I lay upon,
The wind’s insomnia complements my own
Breathing its cold breath,
Biting my face and my neck.
My arms rise to cover my head
While my eyes fill
With the tears of my dreams

This kiss is a love note
A never-ending promise
A sweet, tender touch
Saying so many things
Without any words
Hello,
I love you
Stay with me forever
Keep me in your heart
As you are in mine
Your lips are a pen
Writing me a story
A breath-taking past, present
And future
This kiss is my addiction
I can’t live without you.

Crouched beneath the sea
Enduring the battering tide,
Seeing only your face
     Behind my eyes, closed tight
Screaming for you, in a
     Silent fit of bubbles –
To raise myself from the sand
As the waves lead a desperate attack
In an effort to submerse me once again
To their beautiful, torturous comfort
I will hide behind them no longer
No – I will walk from the water
Lifting my feet as I sink
To stand on the shore,
Arms reaching to the ocean
Tasting your sweet kiss,
Instead of salt water
Dripping down my cheek
To land on my lips –
A reminder of what was
And what will always be.

I would live this life
A hundred times over
If in every one,
I could see your face
For every tear,
A smile from you
For every disheartened sigh,
An embrace for strength
For every despaired utterance,
The whispered words,
"I love you"
If for all eternity
I cried for the sight of you
It would be worth every second
Because to have you in my thoughts
Is a greater gift than I could ask for
To have you in my life
Is heaven's good deed
To have you as my own...

An inexplicable wonder
That I will treasure forever
And grasp to
Until the end of time.

A path has led me to a wall,
Overgrown with moss
Barely there, beyond the vines
And as I stare at it, 
I realize that there is no door,
No rusted lock with a missing key
No secret garden beyond the crumbling brick
Short of climbing,
No way to see past the barrier.
And knowing that a mystery exists
That I cannot decipher
Is enough to spark my imagination
And create a world, unattainable,
Which provides all of my deepest wishes.
Sighing, because I know it is not real,
I turn from the wall
And realize, as I trace my footsteps back
That all of my wishes
Have already come true.