From across the country a tear falls I jump with arms outstretched But watch as I come up short The tear splashing Off the end of my finger Painting the cement A darker shade of gray I look up and wish I could Take her in my arms Tell her the world is on fire [...]
I hear all the voices Screaming and ranting Telling me I’m fucking up To not get involved Even my own mind Saying to back away At first And now my voice is quiet But they keep trying to help Trying to hold me off But my blood is pumping My energy returning They throw chains [...]
The smile slips past this mask The cracks widening With each word she says Or the mumbled replies of her Tired voice My eyes can’t help but to moisten When I imagine her embrace And it kills me to have to wait Till she has closed the connection And left the phone Before I whisper [...]
Stumble and crash against A tired swing In a dark park Tangle in the chains Collapse in defeat Upon a semi throne Clutching the bottle Wrapped in brown paper Only seeing the stars When taking a drink Tears blurring The already tilted vision Lost in a world of self loathing Whiskey warmth The only escape [...]
To hold you upon a pedestal My dark rose of desire Covered in a shimmer of warmth As I cling close to the hope Wrapping arms around thorns Without a care as to the hurt Or pain of the damned As your angelic beauty Banishes me in demon blood And I kiss the petals of [...]
The moonlight trickles through Lightly dancing down As my eyes adjust to the darkness And I gaze at what I’ve found A curious woman With a streak of dark Large deep eyes Staring up at me Questioningly From so far away Every thought now links To questions and doubts I know I shouldn’t return the [...]
Duck down below the sunlit summit Cowering in the cold of the condemned Graveyard markers manicured in mildew Silently slithering in search of you Crawling cautiously around ghosts Tombstones with missing letters Crying souls wearing tattered sweaters Kneeling in the after life Scraping in stone with a knife To erase the date of death And [...]
Panic and fear flood these hands As I hold her Trying to comfort and staunch The blood that flows freely From wounds I can’t heal With words I can’t find As the color drains away The world loses its hue Her scared eyes scarring deep Pleading for me to do something Anything And I sit [...]
Walk quietly into the past The familiar seems alien Age regression takes hold This old house Nothing has changed Picturing yourself At age four Running back and forth Looking for Easter eggs The warm smiles of grandparents Watching and laughing All gone now Only the house remains Untouched Same yellowed phone Same dusty clock Same [...]
A soft whimper awakens me The red light from the sun rise Slipping past the edge of the curtains The feathers that lay spread upon the sheets Softly illuminated I turn to see her Sitting, facing away Blood upon her shoulders As she cries into her hands Softly I reach out a hand Lay it [...]