If you need
         someone to follow
         there's none another
          you are that fellow!

I could not wait for
these words to leave me
at first they were these
little pleasures
these sweet secrets
I whispered to myself
when the lights were dim
and the stars came out
feelings wrapped in a
warm towel
placed on my soul
to comfort me
when I was alone
but the longer I held
them inside me and
kept them to myself
the more they started
fester inside me
to go bad
like a fruit
to break open and spread
a poison inside me
so when I heard them
I felt sick
I didn’t know
feelings had a shelf life

she said her tears
were pearls

each one more
valuable than

the next she said

I would be
lucky to discover

just one she does
not shed them

for just anyone

she strung them
together and made

a necklace

I asked if I
could try it on

she said I was
not strong enough

to carry that
much weight

Dreaming akin to madness
Voices come and go

What light through yonder window breaks?
Must be Romeo

But then I wake; this world is back
Consciousness of here

Romeo, O Romeo
Will Juliet appear?

        Not clear.

I sat in a place of peace and sweetness,
my thoughts became poetry.