21 May

Goodbye

We ran a race that we couldn’t finish together Obstacles forced us to separate Leading us in different directions She was a gift Which I couldn’t keep The stars and the moon Which disappeared from my night sky I held on to the possibility that We would find a way back to each other...
01 May

Sanity

It’s quite easy, really. I just string words with your name across them and they become wonderful Write letters in dust and hope that my lungs pray about them, in tongues Shift sides and still wonder if I’ll wake you on the right side of you. Hold on to the envelopes and still ponder...
01 May

Suburban “Woes”

It is my greatest handicap To have been so fortunate as to live the life that I have I have heard the songs of freedom through the radios in the kitchens of suburban homes in the background of entertainment television in the lounge staring out of glass doors at the sight of green grass...
28 Apr

One More Time

I miss love I miss spending my days in a haze, thinking about you, I miss fading my consciousness from attention, daydreaming about you I miss the feeling of you missing me The nights with just music or shots with the stars. I miss the mess we built the mess you scattered in my...
16 Apr

Move

It’s 7 o’clock in the morning. The sun is out but the autumn wind is blowing on my face. The hair on my arms and legs have risen and I’m shivering in my sneakers. I’m trying to ignore the little voice that’s reminding me that I left a warm bed in my room. I...
16 Apr

because

because love was a concept that wrapped itself around and sewed itself into and out of the crevices of my thoughts nestling in the twisted corners long enough to make sense but never to evoke any feeling in me because it was beautiful in the pages of the romance novel I kept borrowing from...