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AmIEnough Aug 2020
Walking on the open road
If you look down
Eyes on the ground
You could be anywhere
Not this little town

The mud turns to gravel
And the gravel turns to grass
The grass runs alongside the asphalt
And there is mud on the road
In little brown dabbles

The road keeps going
And challenges you to go too
Walk like you know where you’re going
And eventually you’ll get through
AmIEnough Jan 2020
The thing I like about poetry is
You can end a poem any way you want
If you are stuck
Just stop.
Throw
In
Some
Strange formatting
And
You’re
Good
To
AmIEnough Nov 2019
Where the river flows from the turquoise foaming sea
Passing over smooth seashells, worn down from the relentless motion
The water feeds the earth and the earth feeds the tree
But all of this, life, comes from the ocean

And the trees that came from this water
That began as a seed and grew so much taller
Huddle round like a mother and father
The little trees that still need so much water

These trees, when the wind blows
Their leaves dance a graceful ballet
In the swirling, twirling endless breeze
And they show me what joy can mean

The dark wood becomes a beautiful sandy
brown when a ray of light falls on it
The tree, who have seen so much,
felt so much, must not move to help a soul
The roots are sunk down into the moist earth,
never to see the ray of sun that lights up the tree they are part of.
AmIEnough Nov 2019
They say the eyes are the
Windows to the soul
If that is true
What will mine tell you
That they have not already told?

I was lost but now I’m found
You pulled me up out of the darkness
Right before I drowned

When I’m feeling alone
Or broken inside
You fix my pieces
You make me right

You make me smile
When I want to cry
You make me want to live
When I want to die

You dance with me
In the best of times
And hold me in the worst
Rain or shine
You make me feel alive
And I know you are mine

You make me happy
You make me believe
You make me whole
You are all I see

When you kiss me
I swear that you stop Time
And all I can think is
You are mine
AmIEnough Jan 2020
as black as a nightmare
and the land where nightmares lie
as black as death
and the heart of a man about to die
AmIEnough Jan 2020
I am drunk on depression
And high on helplessness
Maybe one more bad decision
Will cure my restlessness
AmIEnough Jan 2020
Words on a page
Put me in a daze
Put me in a trance
It's a solemn sort of dance

Aye my life is a solemn sort of moment
My night is of a solemn sort
A solemn sort?
A sort that is solemn

What does solemn mean?
Can you give an example
Sure! the child was solemn
Before he got trampled

Oh God no! One less horrific
But a solemn child is horrifying
Now isn’t that terrific?

No it’s not at all!
Who are you to say what’s not?
After all, what have you been taught?
I’ll tell you what-absolutely naught!

I’ve been taught!
Yes taught by me
You are just a piece
Of machinery
A clog in my pain
Clogging up my brain
Making me inebriate
I’m drunk on my thoughts
And I can’t see straight

I can help you!
No you can’t!
I know where your help leads to!
Me drowning in the deep blue
Either of my tears or the ocean
Drowned until I cannot make a motion
Who needs alcohol when you are me?
And you are me, you piece of machinery
AmIEnough Aug 2020
My darkness rises
Slowly and seductively
From a pool of despair
She reaches out a clawed and oozing hand
And her eyes are black as midnight

I turn and hide in you, my love
I hold you as tight as I can
I whisper to you, my love
“Hold me while you can”

You wrap your arms around me
Closer until we are one
All I can see is you
All I smell is you
All I touch is you
All I can hear is your heartbeat
Slow and steady
Not her whispers

I’m scared to let you go
I don’t want to face her again
Because, my love, I know
I might not see you again

Her eyes will pull me closer
Close enough for her hands to drag me down
I will choke and drown on darkness

So don’t let me go
I won’t let you go!
Hold me until I forget why I’m hiding
Tell me when she’s gone
AmIEnough Nov 2019
Memories in the dark
soon become dreams
AmIEnough Aug 2020
Words on a page
Put me in a daze
Put me in a trance
It's a solemn sort of dance

Aye my life is a solemn sort of moment
My night is of a solemn sort
A solemn sort?
A sort that is solemn

What does solemn mean?
Can you give an example
Sure! the child was solemn
Before he got trampled

Oh God no! One less horrific
But a solemn child is horrifying
Now isn’t that terrific?

No, it’s not at all!
Who are you to say what’s not?
After all, what have you been taught?
I’ll tell you what-absolutely naught!

I’ve been taught!
Yes taught by me
You are just a piece
Of machinery
A clog in my pain
Clogging up my brain
Making me inebriate
I’m drunk on my thoughts
And I can’t see straight

I can help you!
No you can’t!
I know where your help leads to!
Me drowning in the deep blue
Either of my tears or the ocean
Drowned until I cannot make a motion
Who needs alcohol when you are me?
And you are me, you piece of machinery
AmIEnough Jan 2020
Where oh where
The cat inside me howls
Where is my mate?
He whose growls
Slither up my spine
Taking their time
Enfold me, unwind me
Control me, bind me
To him

Where has he gone?
It hasn’t been long
But where did he go?
I don’t know, I don’t know

Where is my other half?
He who makes me smile
He who makes me laugh
He who makes me wild
Where is my other half?
AmIEnough Jan 2020
Where oh where
The cat inside me howls
Where is my mate?
He whose growls
Slither up my spine
Taking their time
Enfold me, unwind me
Control me, bind me
To him

Where has he gone?
It hasn’t been long
But where did he go?
I don’t know, I don’t know

Where is my other half?
He who makes me smile
He who makes me laugh
He who makes me wild
Where is my other half?
AmIEnough Jan 2020
They say the eyes are the
windows to the soul
If that is true
what will mine tell you
that they have not already told?

— The End —