We are floating debris on the ocean of creation, indistinguishable from one another.

all the tangled veins broke
and the waterworks started.
little firework drops
colored my skin on the surface.

and you took this all in
watching me barely breathing,
my soggy heart hardly beating
in the palm of your hand.

i've never wanted anything
more than i wanted this:
my life in your hands,
my DNA in your fingerprints.

this is the only way to die-
at the hands of a stranger i wanted so much,
who could see my entire life at once
by reading my heart's pulp like tea leaves.

I awoke to rain on my second floor window;
An overcast sky and tossing trees,
Glimmering leaves above tar-black streets.
I opened the window
And felt the light breeze against me.
I watched the droplets fall on my hand.
Splattering carelessly:
A downpour of tiny suicides.
So I closed the window,
And I took a cold shower,
And as the water poured onto my head
I stared down at the drain
Wondering,
How it would feel to clean this broken skin,
And fall away
Into oblivion,
Only to be reborn
Falling from the sky.

SONG OF WOE

The crimson sky and the wind’s cold embrace

Was all that eased the pain of the sad soul

A smile to shield the sadness on her face

Uncertain if she’s ready of the fall


The crows pried as she trembled on the edge

“Fly, be free” A voice so calming whispered

Her blank eyes wondered and ventured the ledge

The grim fate awaits the soul who suffered


She knew she was an angel denied love

Lost herself so she called darkness, her friend

Sang of woe maybe they’ll hear her above

Asked for a sign, but no this was her end


And so now the light fades- the sun has set

She opens her arms, took step- no reset

My decision made
only air caught me
resigned to fade
from the highest place
with the most shade
I'm coming down
that hand I've played
sent me below
but I'm not dismayed
when beckoned by the ground
I heard and I obeyed.