Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Staccato

The drooping eyelids
The not quite sallow skin
The half smile in a souless grin

The unhealthy breath
The thinning hair
The burden
Of life to bear

The downs are written
Upon her face
The joys are hidden in the gloom

The sadness in her eyes
Projects
Nothing
Nothing
Just doom

Each step forward
Reveals a past
Not welcome
But still received

Longing for forward
Belonging to the past
Hopeless
For hope
As a flower to a weed




Saturday, March 5, 2016

Flowers

  -  12:01 AM
 
Flowers

A wisewoman once told me
Spring is for the dead
Flowers burst
When life went dry
When bulbs went dry
Then they bloomed
But don't be fooled
They're still
Blooming
For the dead

Friday, January 22, 2016

Try

 
Try

I try hard to find the best
In all I am witness to
I glory in my friend’s good fortune
And tend to wallow in my solitude

I ache with all my feelings
I love with my open heart
I try to hide my crumbling face
So as not to fall apart

Saturday, January 2, 2016

Boxes

Boxes

How obvious
I color within the lines
literally
I am bound by the size
of the boxes
they give to me
I fill them just so
I yearn to fill the empty
with colors and rainbows
in the end they just cover me
with x's and o's.

Sunday, November 8, 2015

Journey

Can you tell me if it's Sunday night
And can you tell me if it's Eleven or Two
You see I went out when the sun was bright
And I'm not sure what's what or who's who

See the dog in the bathroom caused an awful mess
With the bucket tied 'round his back
I tried to gather up my shoes and my dress
But the dog just went on the attack

So I'm not sure where I'm going
And I'm not certain what I've seen
What seems impossible, seems to be what's been
What makes sense, doesn't seem to be fitting in

I don't know how I got here
And I'm not sure how I'm gonna leave
Maybe that dog has his own pet to peeve
And maybe we'll go together just to begin to believe

There's a man who's waiting for his girl to call
He's laying out his lemons and his limes
The phone would ring and his head would fall
His broken heart a drive by crime

A woman owns a run-down trailer park
She drives smiling, as the people wave and pray
She Say's "she's the mayor of this broken town,
And always wears pink to brighten their day"

And maybe I'm crazy for thinking
All these thoughts all these days
Like if I run fast enough on train tracks
It will make me Superman someday

And maybe I'm lost for believing
That there's magic in these ways
That broken is just a way of fixing
And I'll be Wonder Woman someday

So I'm not sure where I'm going
And I'm not certain what I've seen
What seems impossible, seems to be what's been
What makes sense, doesn't seem to be fitting in

I don't know how I got here
And I'm not sure how I'm gonna leave
Maybe that dog has his own pet to peeve
And maybe we'll go together just to begin to believe









Open Eyes

It's amazing what the night will say
When you stop
And listen
With open eyes

Silly Lady

Silly lady.
By your own hand
You blinded yourself.
Fingers locked tightly across 
Starry eyes.