If man were a pig  .  .  .
He'd reap his oily mud patch,
  .  .  .  Polluting all things.

Happiness is free...
It can't be bought with money,
It's simply priceless...

Warm sunset welcomes
Flirtatious night, she dallies
On the edge, darkly.

Sometimes,
          we lose ourselves,
          find it,
          but realize
          **it's not who we really are.

Seven billion strong
and each one of us
alone in our thoughts.

r ~ 3Mar14

Life provides the contours.
Poets provide the shading and colors.

r ~ 23Mar14

There's a secret within me
Writhing to be free
Sometimes it slips out
In wisps of whispers
and I clamber to pull it back
To retrieve the slivers before
Someone realizes what the
Whispers entail

There's a secret within me
Its too much to hold
But its too much to let out
So I let it gnaw at my insides
Pierce my heart
And drain me of what
Might've been a soul.

There was a secret within me
I really shouldn't have kept it
There was a secret within me
But now it's gone

So am I.