I spent the night Outside of myself Watching as the blood Pulled around a footprint The discipline Dedication Determination not to scream As the blade Slid in Just above the ankle And spiraled up To the knee The cuts deep enough to bleed To channel the blood down Not to let a drop Drip off [...]
Every thing triggers a memory A song, a sign, These words I can’t let go Every old email Like coals placed on a plastic heart Burning deep Melting apart As they fall through Leaving only charred black Holes of emptiness I force myself to read As I grip tight the ring White gold Size six [...]
Get out Forced whisper of a prayer Spitting past lips Held tightly closed For fear of releasing The helpless whimper Of the condemned She invades my dreams Ripping me from sleep In a mixture of pain and pleasure Want and hurt The shaking starts Hands trembling as they clutch Handfuls of hair Trying to hold [...]
Martyr me something menacing Make it burn eyes to blind Force me fittingly Into what I refuse to find Shrug off my advances Lock it down tight No hope for second chances Candles burn without light
I step around her cautiously My eyes sadly trace her form Her scent jabs me in the ribs And I long to rub her shoulders Her friend comes down the hall Says hello to a phantom As I grab some things And make my way sadly Out the door My chest caving in Shattering my [...]
Traveling home Emptiness filling the void With cold Slide silently into sleep Away from the shattering of dreams Hoping maybe then I will find some measure of hope That eludes me while awake Cities move past the windows People half way through life Walking, driving, heading towards A place, a job, a child, a wife [...]
it feels like there is nothing there for me any more, no reason for me to return. and so i will slowly fade, a little less each day, until all that is left is a memory waiting to be forgotten…
Peel off each mask carefully Revealing me Naked and without defenses Slumped in an alley way Feel the cold wetness Of the wall that supports me As ants make their march Over my hands Up my arms Skin crawls with the feeling Then becomes lifeless As my fingernails dig in Gravel pushing up into skin [...]
Retreat on shaking legs Each step back Straining the muscles further The tension building Feet start to skid Breath explodes from lungs As you are catapulted forward Launched into the air With nothing to grab onto Screaming for it to stop As you flair helplessly Praying for an understanding Hoping she knows This will not [...]
Smiles and stifled laughter Leak around us As we try to stay under the blanket That was made for midgets Or so it would seem Pupils dilate to full moons As the laughter slowly dies Replaced by hunger And flaming desires Hands no longer playful Gripping greedily with want Lungs screaming for air Around a [...]