Walk away when you are not needed

You don't sing well?
No matter--sing just for yourself!

Homeward-bound-
how exhilarating
if on your shelf
good books are found!

(posted in site of 'Bound by Books'

I was starving in
Pennsylvania.
One night, I had
enough.
Done with it all.
The poverty and
sickness.
The drunken mad
nights
and dog-fight days.
Brutality for breakfast.
Served sunny side up
runny yolks with
butterflies trapped in
the yellow sunshine.
Spiders built webs in
my soul.

I stood on the torn-up
couch in my living room and
yelled at the walls.

Listen, you devil.
You want me, you better be
ready for a fight.
I paced the floor like a
washed-up heavyweight champ,
eyeing the ceiling like a
drunken sparrow in a cat's mouth.

They are truly rich
   who seek
   other lives
   to enrich

Poetry is life's noblest music
it's so sad few do want to listen to it

Words are not like bullets
to be in the gun loaded:
they are each a fertile seed
within the writer's heart to be planted

If I cry enough tears
would they please,
kindly drown me
in my sleep?