A messenger delivers
and everything I feel.
Big stories, with small bottom lines.

The quite boy with the simple smile.
He never knows what to say
to his mother, who is never satisfied.

The girl with the straight ‘A’s
who does not want to be a doctor,
and hides a dark family secret.

The old man hiding the pain
and fire inside,
consumed by ill-fate and
dragging himself from day-to-day.

A woman who told me
her husband had not kissed
her for eight years…….She
was beautiful.

A cautious loner
who once was a king.
Now he drinks each day,
and shouts at the moon.

Everybody’s searching for them,
everybody’s consumed by them
…and my story?

My eyes were blind,
and something started in my soul….