You were so vibrant
back then
when we first met,
freshly painted
your true colors
wet and running
onto my smock
I didn't see you
back then, the way that
I do now

Sad how...
I had only brushed
over you

Trees
I know nothing about them
but,
they mean everything
to me
Each one
a branching group of wizards
waving their wands up to
the sky
Inviting the magic of inspiration

Amber Moon, so full
please be still,
do not continue to rise
for the strength of your pull
will command the tears
to break free from the
lonely corners of my eyes

Amber Moon,
stay where you are
don't let our distance
make me reach too far,
While getting sleepy
on the sand,
the eve lays you to rest
upon the palm of my hand

Amber Moon,
the sweet harvest
that feeds my soul
the mystery of
your orange glow
never grows old

Wrap me up

address me

handle me with care

send me through channels
of touch

far away from the loneliness
that has stolen
so much

My throat
is
closing,
I'm
choking
on a
lie

Falling off
she leaves,
leaves her tree
breaking free
of her majestic mentor
Falling over time,
leaving what she has
learned of truth
behind
Carried upon a
cradle in a breeze,
Tossing about in
crisp, edgy, crimson,
swaying, whirling, dancing
look at me, love me

Your soul
is a bookmark
just open
to the page
Forever,
True Love
no matter
our age..

You said we'd spend tomorrow
together
but you never told me your
name

I waited a lifetime

Tomorrow,
never came

In the end, I lost the game

Playing
by his rules
I cheated myself

Chased by thoughts
held captive by words
Written down
free as
birds

Lonely night
piano,
accompany me,
with your compassionate keys
Pick me up
off the wet floor,
where
sad songs
spill from the seams
of my soul

Just let me
be
in my castle of snow!

If I am so
cold
only a hot headed
Snow Man
be invited in,
to melt my
frozen heart

Together,
making slush
out of nothing but,

Snowfall

Pretty little wind-up doll
wound up in the wrong hands

Was going through the motions
for too long

Years of tinkering
with her gears

she springs out of control

Repairs include
conserving energy and
resting her joints to
revitalize connectivity

She will no longer
be entertaining in your
playpen

You broke her

In the quiet
hum
beyond the
sky of her
mind
like droplets
of rain
fall stories
and
rhymes

His forgiveness
redirects me
over and
over again
to
listen up,
and become
the best self
that I can

Somewhere
on a seasonal eve,
when you've swept
me into an aging pile
of the forgotten
fall
I hope you remember
to never forget my
true colors,
one
and all

drainy, rainy
weepy day,
wishy wipers,
whisk my blues
away

When life gets
so incredibly
lonely on the inside,
step outside...
In awe, there is no
loneliness
only the steady pulse
of nature's applause

I became so precise
in my directions on
how to keep from
dying,
that I
I lost my way
of living

your
shallow soul
folds
like linen
into my
empty pockets

This,
I can always
count on

but,
out of my
hands

So thirsty

The
WONDER
of
words
wake
the soul

Write On
Write On
Write On

Even though
it
is wrong,
she continues
it
to carry on

Oh, what a rare,
and brilliant
diamond was
I

Now set in
your collection
not
worth a
dime



to you

You are my favorite
flashback
you are
Closing my eyes
you put me on a
rollercoaster
with so many dips
and turns
screaming,
ups and downs
freedom
oh, how I've learned
You are my favorite
flashback
you are

Etched in the ventricles
lying deep within the
fibers of the southern heart
Trading the beat of old blood,
for the fresh iron of youth's heme
the subterranean vessels
release passion
that ignite fires in bellies
changing the shape
of cells,
where escape is an
endless possibility

Sometimes,
in the fall of deep
silent despair
When,
there's nothin left
but prayer
Time builds a staircase,
out of nowhere

With it's every step
brings closer, the clarity
of sound mind

The
gravity of it all
always putting me

down

"Grab what's left of the light"
she mutters while intertwining
her fingers into his

Sweet and gentle are his eyes
lost in a vulnerable gaze

Watching him ponder
the madness of a memory
he could not make sense of

Tunneling blackness, no words,
deep thought

Waving the moths away....

Curiosity
in your fantastic,
exaggerated, colorful life,
attracted me

Your white lies drained me

Foolish
tap, tap
of the keys

he spends
away his
anxieties

The same
LOVE
that breaks
us
a p a r t
can put
us
back together
even
s t r o n g e r

I used to think
it was our
destiny,
to walk on water
together

Nothin would bring us down

But it's been years
since we sank
below
ocean-spray's
spirited mist

I often
reflect upon our
love lost, like
the buried treasures
trapped in sunken ships

My desire to dig you up,
magically, have you again

Like the crashing waves
that break over
the sharp and rocky jetty

I break
💔
over the memory
of us

Big,
open
doorway
of doubt,
are you in
or
are you out?

In the fine lines
of her face
wisdom now fills
the space
on the flat surface
of doubt
where once upon,
began a lifetime

My soul has lift off,
the slow tempo of
my breath suddenly
boundless

My drums perforate
surrounded by a
universal register of
beats and measures
rolled into a mysterious,
melodic constellation

Dashing across the board
my fingers feverishly frisk
for the keys
of
Mozart, Prokofiev,
Rachmaninoff

With hammers and strings
I scale the sounds
of perfection
while properly perched
in front of
Grandma's Pianola
pretending to be
composed

how many
masks,
before I
lose myself
completely?

SHE
hurts
so,
she
hurts

Forever chasing songs
within the wind
so I remain
safe in
sound