You were like a flower.
But a rose without petals.

*Nothing but thorns.

She never did learn to love.

*Only how to run.

I watched us burn.

I wanted to put out the flames,
but all I held was more gasoline.

Life sustains with a flicker,
but lives with a flame.

A noose slips when your feet do,
and a gun fires when there is nothing left
to claim.

Like the ocean,
I am deep.
But unlike the monsters that lie beneath,
I float atop the surface,
searching for a place to sink my teeth.

I never meant to say goodbye.
But it escaped from my mouth and it felt so right.
And you didn't have to say it back,
but you let it fall from your lips as slowly as it sped away from mine.

Time is only a peace keeper.
Left to babysit the helpless.
It leaves us in handcuffs wrestling with priorities for the sane-less.
We fold our hands and twiddle our thumbs
hoping for silence which never comes.
We are broken in the shadows of a downtrodden land
and we are never affixed to see what it is that holds us to the ground.
I reach for something so far in the distance,
it's as if I'm a toddler grasping for vision.
I don't walk without stumbling and I promise you I'm not perfect.
But how in this world are we supposed to live with purpose?