The writers who dare put thoughts to page
which might be loved, hated or worst ignored.
The unrecognized millions of us who dare to
speak our truth against tides and say **** it.
I admire us all and will always say **** it.
Rip our tongues out and we write in blood.

The world I know is black and white.
Food is bland and love impossible.
If I smile it's by accident not joy.
He sterilized an ice pick and mind ******
me until he found my identity and killed it.
Lobotomy banished my demons and my self.

I don't know what they've done to you, my love.
    They claim they fixed you but I fear they stole
    your essence, your flame that burned too bright
    but kept us both warm in the bitterest winters.
    You look almost the same as before except your
    eyes seem vacant. Both seeing and blind together.
    I miss your outbursts of passion that thrilled
    and scared me. They always ended in mad *******.
    Now we don't ride the bed together. I tuck you in,
    a kiss and pulling a sheet over you like a shroud.

Written by BJ Donovan

We bought a broken dog
and took him to our broken home
to live with this broken family.
We tried to fix him with broken
training. I was too broken to get
it right. The more I yelled the more
broke we got. I had a drunken insight
one evening walking him in a full moon.
He reminded me of me in my childhood.
I saw things through our broken eyes
and held him close. I promised I'd fix us.
He saved us both from broken lives.

I want pleasure. Mother's milk
and rock me gently to dreams.
I want laughter and kisses and
wine and lovers dancing naked
in midnight's full moon who
make me think I matter.

She seems so real and perfect
  I want to be with her forever.
  Don't take an ice pick to my brain.
  Please don't make me better. Let us
  live our wonderful life in my head.
  Why ruin true love as rare as it is?

It's like holding your own heart.
Doubt beats metronome like in me.
I've never seen a miracle.
It's fiction, not fact.
My fables faded over time.
Santa died. Easter Bunny died.
Tooth fairy died. Mommy died.
Love finally died inside doubt.