Life carries me into many diamond facets of self.
Each containing experiences and memory.
I shine its surface with polish of poetry.
Scribing dark side, as well as light.
Sides that radiate with sun to make rhymes.
Surfaces glossy tears to release pain into verse.
Planes smooth as ice to glide on with Haiku's

My diamond is sacred with no price tag.
becoming larger with age.
My form is becoming crystalline
so visions become clear.
I am priceless. I am sacred.

I wish I could love like they do
I wish I could understand like they do
I wish  I didn't feel trapped or enclosed
I wish I didn't have to feel different  
I wish I could control myself
I wish I could be anything he wanted
I wish I wasn't so awkward
I wish I could be more brave
I wish I wasn’t so afraid  
I wish I could… just….
I wish I could…

Let your dreams run wild
with your eyes sealed tightly shut
and heart open wide

He never bothered to look through her flesh

He never cared to look past her
chalk powder face and rose petal extract rouge

Or the kohl that lined her shimmering eyes with the
fine,
charcoal,
powder

He never thought to ignore her petals
And dig to her roots

So when summer died

And her petals fell

He left her alone

i've have been deprived of my need for love
and out of room to store the pain
out of people to make me sane
so here i lie
in a shower
of tears
out in the rain
watching whatever was left of me
seep through a sewer drain