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266 · Aug 2015
Paperpens
Hello
It's been a while
Since my pen touched paper
Or even remembered the stories I've written on you.
The ink's spilled and run dry
But in its reflection I view
That I am paper too.
You drew
Mysteries
And memories
And smeared tears into stains
That bled from the veins
Shed all the pain, yet
Kept the heart
Left me
Art
261 · Oct 2016
Ready to shine
You found me by the way side
And pushed me out to sea
Now I'm pulling in the fish
But there's just no room for me

I have to choose

I'm jostling through the crowd
Inches from your robe
I want to just stay hidden
But I want to know you

I have to choose

You have opened your heart
To all these scars all these hours
In the shadows teaching me to shine.
You opened my heart
To all I am all I can be
And closed it to the life I've left behind
I'm ready to shine!
Ready to shine!

You left the bright side
And came down to earth
You came by my side
And say I am worthy

I have to choose

You took up my cross
And forgave their wrong
Now I'm at a loss
If by them you meant me all along

I have to choose

You have opened your heart
To all these scars all these hours
In the shadows teaching me to shine.
You opened my heart
To all I am all I can be
And closed it to the life I've left behind
I'm ready to shine!
Ready to shine!

You found me by the way side
And pushed me out to sea
260 · May 2017
Red
Red
If you are reading this
You know nothing of me.
People who know me, know I hate being red.

If you are reading this
You think nothing of me.
Because I misspelled read as red.

If you are reading this
Know that I think nothing of me.
Because the thought of you reading this makes me red.

If you are reading this.
Know nothing of me.
For all I am will one day be red.
256 · Jun 2017
Light again
Oh hey the sky is blue again
All different hues of blues
And the clouds they fade away
The grey has washed away

Oh hey, Hi! it's you again
We're all different hues of blues
But the clouds just fade away
When I see your face

And when it's dark you're the silver lining
And I hope that I'm yours too
You're the sky, when the world's so black it's blinding
I look up at you
And I'm reminded
Light will come again

You've got me convinced
That forever is forever
The future is a journey
Where we are always we

I've never thought how since
This forever is forever
The man I used to be didn't hesitate or contemplate
That kissing you would be the death of me

And when it's dark you're the silver lining
And I hope that I'm yours too
You're the sky, when the world's so black it's blinding
I look up at you
And I'm reminded
Light will come again
256 · Mar 2016
In the hush of the sea
I lost a piece of me
Sometime after we met
And you were the sea
That rushed through the cleft

And it felt full
As you filled me
And slowly pulled
Me into the sea

Now I'm floating out
Beneath the sounds
Just the dull thud of waves
beneath your surface I'm saved

I'm pressed not crushed
By your weight
And the cracks are hushed
As I wait

And it's dull
And shallows
In the lull
Of the shadows

Now I'm floating out
Beneath the sounds
Just the dull thud of waves
beneath your surface I'm saved

Dissolved
Nothing left
But the rush
of your depth

Resolved
Of me
In the hush
Of the sea
254 · Sep 2014
Lost Heart
I swear
If you lose my heart
I will tear your room apart
Until It's found
And if it's not around
I will split with yours
And hide it because

We'll both be lost hearts then
Following the one who lost them
244 · Sep 2015
Sunshine
Sunshine is a reminder
That light like love
Falls from above
Casts a shadow after it burns you
241 · Oct 2014
6wordstories
My mirror seems angry with me
6wordstories
240 · Apr 2015
Untitled
I took her to the beach where we jogged on the sand.
She took my photo of her, my heart and my hand.
It was a beach we'd been on years before.
And we talked of our first date as we ran on the shore.

And I took her home and sang her a song,
Of all the songs I wrote i hadn't sung in so long.
And you wrapped and old string around my ring finger
And asked me if I'd be hers forever.

So we went where we met for the very first time
We shared a slice of pizza and I used all the lines
Cause I knew that you knew, that if I ever would ask
This would be the place and the way, but I passed.

And you punched me pinched me for pushing your buttons.
And I acted like I had no idea, and it was just sweet nothings.
And then we went to majestic and talked for a while,
Of all the times and dates before and how I made you smile.

And I took
236 · Dec 2014
Letters worth living for
I find with every word
I lose the things I've heard
And know more
The unknown before

I find I live for your reply
Die when it's denied
See to read your lines
Blinded by your mind

By your sentence
It condemns
By your words
My world ends

Your words are so much more
Your letters worth living for
233 · Mar 2019
Fair trade
Collapsible lungs
Bendable fingers
Removable teeth
But the pain still lingers
It feels like we weren't made long for this world.

Pluckable eyes
Breakable jaws
If we look past the lies
We know it's because
We know we weren't made long for this world

Carve up your pound of flesh
Take from me my last breath
Cause I'm a stitched up limping mess
And only you can cure my death

Inflatable pride
Debatable truth
Preferable lies
Reimbursable youth
I know I'm not made long for this world.

Surrendered pride
Rendered truth
We rended light
Cause the darkness is cool
I know you weren't long for this world

I Carved up your pound of flesh
Stole from you your last breath
You were a limping bleeding mess
And you carried off my death

The transaction was made
But no one but me
Could say fair trade
And walk away ungrieved
I don't deserve to be long for his world
I don't deserve to be long for his world
228 · Jun 2018
Grace not to choose
Laying down stones,
Building up walls
First comes the temple,
It's not that tall

Invest in foundations that nobody sees
I hope it's enough to get you to me

I have a thousand lovers
You're the only one I want
From a thousand vices
You're the only good I won't
I know they're bad for me, and you're really good
At setting me free from all that I would, not loose...
When i'm this broke, give me the grace not to choose.

Here in my mansion
The walls are so high
You need Jacob's ladder
Just to get inside

There's a hundred rooms just to explore
Ignore the thousands where I've locked the door

You need a place
Take mine
If you need a voice
Take mine
If you take me
In every moment
I might not give myself away
227 · Mar 2015
Lost
Her mind a map, I'm lost.
Her mind, a map I lost.
Her lost mind, I map.
I map her loss.
I lost her.
Her loss.
Lost
Grieving Love Lost
226 · Aug 2017
Hide and seek
If you're looking for me
I'm not here anymore
Go back to the place
You found me before

It's all in the details
I heard somebody lied
All I heard was a hiss
Now I'm dead inside

Can you find me
Can you find me
Can you find me
I'm hiding here

Now it's been so long
Waiting to be found
I might as well be buried
6 feet under ground

I am feeling you digging
You better be find me soon
Cause my death is growing
And it will soon bloom

Can't you find me
Can't you find me
Can't you find me
I'm dying here

If I ran to the ends of the morning
You would surely be there
But I'm covered in the black of the night
And it feels like you disappear

Where can I run from your presence?
Where can a mere mortal hide?
When you took all my sinfulness
And laid it bear on the cross crucified

There you'll find me
There you'll find me
There you'll find me
I was forgiven here

If you're looking for me
I'm not here anymore
Go back to the place
You found me before
226 · Jul 2017
Still the light grows
I am witness to the light
And called to shine
In spite of the shadows inside.

I am called light
But the shadow I call mine
Makes my light hide

Where my flesh is whole
My soul is shadowed
Where you wound me it shows

Thus your life I stole
Burns out my marrow
And still the light grows

I am witness to the light
And still the light grows
224 · Aug 2015
Gave me away.
You held me in your hands
When you knew I was poison
Because you were my reason

When I told you to let go
You held tighter knuckles whiter
Than the winter snow

But when I needed you most
When I asked you to stay
You took your last sip
And gave me away.
223 · Jun 2017
Broken Mirror
The mirror is broken
And I don't know why
The pieces are stained in red

And it seems the reflection
From the shards left by
Match the image left in my head

Was it one too many failures
One too many falls
Or too much compromise?

Was it that I took a leisurely
Lazy call
With consequences I didn't realize?

Now my eyes can't see themselves
All they see is shadows
And no one really sees a shadow
Until it looks back at themself

I see my shadow in my reflection
And I'm afraid of the dark
218 · Jun 2017
Love is enough
I don't know what to say when I'm with you
Words pale and fail to say what my heart knows

I try to raise my voice, but it trickles into nothing more than words.

My spirit's longing but my heart is cold and silent
Turned to stone from years of giving up the fight

I try to make a choice to love you, but I've always said those words

I've wronged you
I'm sorry
I don't know if I can change
But I need you
I'm desperate
I know your the only way
I can love
And be loved
And find that maybe love is enough

I keep thinking of all the times before this
Blaming you or me for how I just can't change

I'll try to look beyond, so my love goes beyond only words.

I still feel the shadow creeping up inside me
But I also feel your life breaking through

I know this heart will fail but please prevail, please be more than words

I've wronged you
I'm sorry
I don't know if I can change
But I need you
I'm desperate
I know your the only way
I can love
And be loved
And find that maybe love is enough

To change a heart
To change my life
From wandering darkness
To living light
Than can warm hearts
And light lives up
More than words
But changed inside

I've wronged you
I'm sorry
I don't know if I can change
But I need you
I'm desperate
You're the only way
I can love
And be loved
And my heart knows that love is enough
(When times get rough)
My heart knows your love enough
(When I fall)
My heart knows your love enough
(When I'm weak)
My heart knows your love is enough
(When I'm lost)
My heart knows you love is enough
216 · Apr 2018
Paramedic
You found me east of the park
Just after dark
When the sky was still dyed red

No sign of external abuses
Just bruises
From my heel to my head

You knew you'd postpone this death
Though I didn't want to be
You drew your own life breath
And breathed into me
I rolled and choked on life as it stung
Air cold broke like a knife to the lungs

I looked into eyes I'd never known,
And saw a debt I could never own.
But you just smiled and sent me home.
211 · Jun 2023
Sigh
Between the wind and rain
Is a breath from my lungs
That longs to be in yours
209 · Nov 2016
Untitled
Here's to the fire that dies
To the sunrise
I never got to see
I'll never get to see

Here's to the joy in my eyes
Before the tears "sighs"
What was lost in me
Love was lost in me

Forgiven
And living
Are just words
I can't feel
But Broken
And hoping
And unheard
Seem real

Here's to the memories of you
Before you fell from my view
What did I leave behind
Or did I just go blind

Forgiven
And living
Are just words
I can't feel
But Broken
And hoping
And unheard
Seem real
208 · Jul 2015
In her arms
In her arms I found,
I could face the failing ground,
I could chart the noon day sky,
And keep the hours from passing by.

In her arms I lost my home,
And found them in her arms alone
Her palms a bed her elbows doors
To places only we know.

And then I leave them
And I'm like a hem
Torn at the sleeve
Whenever I leave
And the only way I'm darned
Is when I'm back in her arms.
205 · Nov 2014
Love what you do
Love what you do, and what you do will be loved.
200 · Feb 2018
You are the star on my hand
I
Found
You shining
Like crystal at noon
And you lit up my room
And put rainbows on my walls
Until I didn't feel my heart
Was as cold as a stone
The beats started
To drone and
Sing of
you
&
I
197 · Oct 2016
Life 1
Light breath and blood
Flood in like smoke
Choking on the haze
Raised in hope

Roped in with help
Scalpel separates us
Us is broken
Awoken from the night

Lighting up the sky
My heart persisted
Red from blue I bleed
Breathe unassisted

I survived
I'm alive
185 · Jun 2017
Walking with you
You're calling me where I can't go
I'll run into the hollow
Of the tree
Please don't follow me

You're sending me where I can't dream
I'm so afraid I want to scream
I'm leaving
don't follow me

But where can I hide
Where you don't provide
Where can I go
Where you don't know
Running from you is like running from myself
But the only way to follow is to leave myself
There's no paths left to choose,
I guess I'll be walking with you

I've made every excuse I can
I've told you I'm not who you need
But you still follow me

You say that you are
You say that I am who you need,
Yeah you still follow me

But where can I hide
Where you don't provide
Where can I go
Where you don't know
Running from you is like running from myself
But the only way to follow is to leave myself
There's no paths left to choose,
I guess I'll be walking with you
185 · Jan 2019
Harmonics in the heavens
Harmonics in the heavens
We’re waiting here again
For you to speak between the lines that blur where we begin
Your voice it roars like lions
Echoes out like a flood
My voice is drowned beneath the water muddled thick as blood

Oh
My spirit groans
Oh
No words to say
Oh
I know you know
No
One can take that away

There comes the dischords (sin)
Singing of our disgrace (grace)
Grace is your re-word to resolve all of our mistakes
You introduce a phrase
Your music set in words
So beautiful it comes alive and cannot be unheard

Oh
My spirit groans
Oh
Don’t know what to say
Oh
I know you know
No
One can take that away

Harmonics in the heavens
We’re waiting here again
For you to speak between the lines that blur where we begin
173 · Jun 2018
The Willow and the Wall
There's a place we used to hide
Between the willow and the wall
It wasn't very wide
Barely a place at all

But you were there, and I was there and no one ever knew
No one could have known what love would do to me and you

They cut the willow down
When they sold our home
The roots deep in the ground
Cracked the wall of stone

And you're not there, but I'm still here and no one knows
And you're not there, but I'm still here and no one knows

And I'm imagining and trying not to of who we used to be
The day we ran away to just go walking by the sea
It's raining so hard in this house that I might drown
Can't remember when we were last around
The willow and the wall are crumbling down

You used to call me your safe place
And you didn't need to smile
I felt tall and strong
Lord it's been a while

I'm still in love with the person that you used to be
And you're sitting there wondering what happened to me

There's a place we used to hide
Between the willow and the wall
It wasn't very wide
Barely a place at all

I'm still waiting for you there, where the leaves are falling
I'm still waiting for you there, where the leaves are falling


And I'm imagining and trying not to of who we used to be
The day we ran away to just go walking by the sea
Now it's raining so hard in this house that I might drown
Can't remember when we were last around
The willow and the wall are crumbling down

We are the rock and the hard place
Our love is caught between
I'm the wall holding you back
But your heart is evergreen
I'm learning that love can be more than out and in
The willow and the wall are coming down

And I'm imagining and trying not to of who we used to be
The day we ran away to just go walking by the sea
The walls coming down give room to grow
To the only love I've ever known
The willow and the wall are crumbling down
168 · Oct 2022
Red Tail Lights
You always loved to drive.
I remember how it made you smile.
Made you feel alive
Mile after mile.

Your mind after mine
You are my dad after all
But I could never find
The drive to follow

I let you drive off
Into the night and never knew
That would be the last time I'd see you

Red tail lights, blurred, as I walk home.
165 · Mar 2018
I'm never gonna find home
You took one step closer
and two steps back
well if it's over
you can't go back

Look over your shoulder
It's still a fact
When it's over
You can't go back

Who do you think you are
Who do you think you scarred
Who do you think fell for who
Who do they say I am
You'll never understand
Just who walked away from whom

I took one step closer
Two steps back
Still going nowhere
That's a fact

Ooh I'm never gonna get home

One step closer
To where I was
Still going nowhere that's because
Ooh... I know I've never been home

Who do you think you are
Who do you think you scarred
Who do you think is falling for who
Who do they say I am
You'll never understand
Just who walked away from whom

One step closer
Two steps back
Still going nowhere
That's a fact

Ooh I'm never gonna get home
You're never gonna get home
We're never gonna get home
164 · Aug 2019
Turn out
Turn out
all of the lights
Burned out
This is what it feels like
Lie down
Spread-out out on the floor

Silence
Nothing is moving
Violence
And my heart is hearing
Voices
I haven't heard before

No light
Left in the dark
No fight
Left in my heart
Tonight
Might be the final time

No place
For shadows to move
No space
Inside the room
Their crowding
Around me to get inside

But I want to say goodbye to you
I want to go away but you
Just keep holding on

The shadows seem bigger than stars
Maybe it's cause they're so far
Or maybe it's cause it's been years since they've been gone
But the light goes on
Maybe it's been years since I've been gone...
Just the shadows go on

Turn out
All of the lights
Till the house
Is like what is inside me
161 · Jun 2023
My ray of sunshine
The Sky was always your home,
You just came in and lit up my room for a little while.
159 · Jan 2018
I think that you're lost
He sat in the periphery of his own life
(And asked 'are you okay?')
And he didn't know how to answer
Or who was asking for that matter

(Why won't you go away)
He whispered back to himself
And sat in silence

Outside and within
And watched the red light
Flicker across the window pane
(Am I okay)
He asks himself,
Really meaning, will things ever change.
155 · Jun 2018
K e e p u s a p a r t
The only think that can keep us apart
Is right here with me
Separating my self from my heart
Until you see

You can't keep us apart
You can take the me out of what I mean
You can't take the I out what's mine

But you can take what you've see, and make it shine
And let the black slip into the back of your mind
Because the only thing that can keep us apart is me
153 · Jan 2018
My patch of sky
There is a patch of sky
That I know better
Than any student of the weather

I know every mood
And every color
From grey brood
To amber wonder

Musing whiffs
of white and grey
Purple pride
That fades away


But the sky was never mine
The storms go rolling by
The Mornings turn to blue
The afternoon tired sighs
Noons scorching golden hues
The thunder roars and fades
And blackness veils it all
As the stars and moon parade

You are my patch of sky
Amidst the joy and pain
I love watching our lives
Shine as the weathers change
And when the night is nigh
Our memories like stars
Remind me that this sky
Was never mine but ours.
152 · Aug 2019
I'm waiting for a city
I'm waiting for a city where the broken
Are windows that let the light in
Where the pressed are the sweetest wine
Where the torn are stitched into Him
Where the lost are the street signs

Where the economy is grace
Where unity is race
And the currency of mercy
Is minted in every soul

Because every citizen is whole

Our gates open
Our tears dry
Our chains broken
Our joys rise

And never fall
A City, The City, YOur City for all
148 · Apr 2017
Away
When he heard he would see her again
His eyes were clouds in the sun
Until the moment had come
And the sky turned gloomy
He saw her, and the wind filled his red sails
But they snagged like nails on the mast
When he remembered the past
Ripped from leech to tack
And there came the rain.
And he turned away
The red ran down in drops
He turned away
And his joy stopped
Turned away
by the storm, he just couldn't stay
Away
148 · Feb 2018
Half full
Your skin feels like whiskey
And I'm thirstin' for a taste
I'm dying to touch and see
How much before I waste
The sense to know purpose
But I can feel your preface
Slip between the surface
Beneath drunk and awake
Hear our heart beats shake
Like ice spins in liquid fire
And cools the heart's desire
Between skin and sin we pull
**And sink the cup that is half full
145 · Dec 2019
Today
I left my heart the April when I met you
Just a Friday evening when I finally came to
I'd known your voice all those years
Drowned them out with my fear
And then somehow your word broke through

Like a **** in the crack in the street
I shouldn't be here but your voice swept over me
You told me the things that I feared
Things my heart bloomed to hear
And in that moment my soul found peace

It's a miracle that I'm even here
That your love opened my closed ears
After all of this time
The cross still shines so clear
Like the day your love first drew me near

Then that first December with you came like a flood
I saw my family in tears and tasted blood
My heart was hardened by fear
But then your love flowed in here
And forgiveness rose up from the mud

It's a miracle that I'm even here
That your love opened my closed ears
After all of this time
The cross still shines so clear
Like the day your love first drew me near

It seemed like just another Sunday in May
But then your spirit came in like autumn rain
Out of season without reason
And suddenly I was a son
Or realized what I was all along

It's a miracle that I'm even here
That your love opened my closed ears
After all of this time
The cross still shines so clear
Like the day your love first drew me near

Though the months and days keep flowing past
Looking back I guess I thought this phase would pass
But Jesus you never end
When my faith dies you rise again
And I know are always my forever friend

It's a miracle that I'm even here
That your love opened my closed ears
After all of this time
The cross still shines so clear
Like the day your love first drew me near
Like every day when you draw me near
Like today cause I know you're right here.
139 · Jan 2018
The Light Inside
Her hands were tired creased with lines that ceased to feel and felt to find the things that warmed the skin and lit her fingers crimson.
Like when she was ten and hid a torch in her hand to feel the warmth of light, and marvel at the light inside.

But the batteries have died,
The light's burnt out.
Her hands have gone numb.

The heat of the dawn and she closes her eyes to the sun, (was the sky ever this bright?) She looks through closed eyes at the crimson gold and flecks of dust, and touches her cheeks.

Warmth, was always within.
And her her eyes try to cool the flame,
as her fingers tingle.
139 · Aug 2018
Tracing
Tracing the lines on a blank page
Lines that were never there
Trying to find my way out of this paper maze
But the page won't tare

You come alive on the page
Your ink stains it red
Your love your pain your hope your rage
It gets into my head

You can't be re-written
Can't be erased
You tear out the ending
And re-write a whole new page
The chapter that would end it all
Starts again
As the hero enters in

The cut out words have been erased
You've taken their place
The story isn't over yet
I'm reading you between the lines
You're the word so new it shines
And flips the story on it's head
I lay down the life I led
You can author me instead
137 · Dec 2019
Hymn
Oh thunders roll and stormy sprays
Weigh down my soul and doubt prevails
But your control like sunny days
Rise in me like the morning
It is your love that's dawning

Each flooding grief my heart can brace
Relief the thief cannot erase
It is belief and sovereign grace
That rises like the morning
Your love in me is dawning

Death's shadow looms and strength retreats
Under the gloom of pain complete
But from my doom, death shall retreat
I'll rise up like the morning
Your life in me is dawning

Death doubt and strife, filled to the brim
Was all drunk dry, and died so grim
So life on life I'll rise in Him
And rise up like the morning
Your light in me is dawning
135 · Jan 2018
Untitled
Amidst a world of wires
Towers and satellites we wait
We're playing with desire and deciding our fate
119 · Mar 2020
Yesterday I died
Yesterday I died
Just not how I'd thought
I just gave a seat to a guy on a crowded bus

Yesterday I died
When I could have fought
But showed grace to a friend that I trust

Yesterday I died
When I swallowed pride
And called my dad after our last fight

Yesterday I died
When I stayed up and tried
To pray with my savior through the night

Yesterday I died
When instead of giving in
I called up a friend and confessed my sin

Yesterday I died
When I let you win
And picked up the word again

Today I lied
Because yesterday I did none of those things
I am very much alive
Not crucified with my king
I heard him whisper each of these things
But I ignored
If today my death knell rings
And I stand before... Him

Will he say well done?
At least you believed and tried.

Or say yesterday, you died...
Where did you go?
Little punk that used to feel,
Who challenged what was real
The heart that won't keep quiet

I used to know
The person you'd become
When did you get so numb
And go on autopilot

I don't know if I'm still the enemy
But if I am I already love to hate me
But you want me to love me enough to let go
I don't know if I can become who I was
My back is breaking from all the last straws
Cause I'd hate to love the person I know

As me
Cause me
Is a little bit short of patience
a little bit prone to lie

Cause me '
As me
Is a little bit prone to darkness
The secrets that I hide
That borrow up inside
Until I believe the lies

Can I really change and find
The heart of a warrior in my mind
I don't know
Anymore
But I know
You're more
than I know

You're still like the warrior I used to know
Hands full of scars and a heart full of souls
I'm giving up the facade of control
Into your hands I'll let go.
116 · May 2019
The girl the wind forgot
Her came from a land without rain.
Where the sun forgot to shine the same.
Born on the savannah where the wind understood.
Those who wander keep nothing good.

Like a seed without roots, that trees forgot.
Her heart set afloat by the freedom she sought.
Snow, rivers, sea, shore.

Her loved her island more by more.
She slept her tears, and listened her fear.
(And this continued many a year.) Her future seemed glad and grim.
And then her heard of him.

Him sounded amusing at worst.
He sang his hope, and laughed his verse.
But as they met, both him and her,
Felt the awkward disappear.

Time went on and so did they.
They laughed their fears they spoke their pain.
Till the wind reminded her one day.
And her first learned the touch of rain.

Shore sea river stream,
Her learned to forget her dreams.
Till all at once, one night she knew.
That him forgot the same dream too.

Stream skies stars streets.
Her journey begun amid complete.
Some guessed if only on a whim.
That his dream was hers, and her dream was him.

Complete amid begun between.
The wind wandered on unseen.
Like anyone and no one before.
They lived their dream more by more.

They sang their wish, and did the same.
Soon they will have the same last name.
The sun remembered to shine again.
Shore sea sky rain.
Love and the mystery of how it finds it's way home.
109 · Apr 2019
Who
Who
Who guides on dark stars that roam,
and taught the moon to hide?
Who calms the blue ocean's roar,
with whispered lullabies?
108 · Nov 2020
Patience
I often find that my darkest thoughts aren’t these evil machinations
That blur the lines of right and wrong, but rather it’s impatience
When someone reaches out to me the lack of any empathy
Or when I know someone needs my voice I pretend I don’t hear the choice

Ignorance and ignoring
Are two very different things
It’s like nodding
when you’re not listening
Instead of asking when you missed something
The first doesn’t offend and doesn't care,
The second offends but does.

But the thing that should scare is the because.

We are impatient because we care more for ourselves,
Than we do for the cause of someone else.
Even if our service costs nothing
Our annoyance betrays something.

It snitches on the stitches our soul never received
The wounds, deep wounds that we never grieved
Cut open by the patience we were never given,
We never learned to give away

But what if we started today?
94 · Aug 2021
No surprises here
I used to see pictures in the sky
Drawn by your hands
Smeared with the light of the universe
Like a love sick lullaby to dawn
As she lies in the sand
Dreaming of the stars in your verse

That darken her eyes
Darken the skies until day turns to night
Your song covered her eyes
And filled her with light so she'd shine when she rises
And light up the sky, like she was meant to
No surprises here

But these skies feel so empty
Like half empty glasses
Like a writers poem at midnight
In shadows frantic and sleepy
Each hour that passes
Reminds him that even his thoughts have grown quiet

They darken his eyes
Darken the skies until night turns to day
Your song covers his eyes
And filled them with night so he'd never shine when he rises
And light up the sky, like he was meant to
Still no surprises here
92 · Jun 2023
The Artist
You pull down the canopy of night,
And with pin ****** bright,
You guide the sun back to the sky

And whip back the grey and black canvass
Royal gold and turquoise
Without a noise, your pen scratches the sky

With streaks of white and grey
Thick black thunder heads sway
And then as the paint bleeds, you cover the easel

We can open the heart and pierce the mind,
But only an artist leaves feelings behind,
Feelings from thoughts as big as the sky
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