The dark is too bright and I’m falling awake. My pencil won’t write and this paper is fake. This cactus is soft and my fur coat is rough. I love doing homework and can’t get enough. I hate to win and love to lose. I hate exciting games and love boring news. Spiders are my [...]
RIDES NOT TAKEN
(1)If you’d found a way to hold your own against the playground bully, Would you go to school reunions now, and share old classroom tales? If you’d opened up, so counselors could understand you fully, Would the knowledge they’d acquired have taken more wind from your sales? (2)If you’d stood up to your father, when [...]
The Black pond
What lies beneath your flaws? Your lies or your laws? And what is your lie? Is it everything that you try? And what is your law? The things that you tried and saw. Then is there any way to go, And hide from these lies and laws? ‘Cause they aren’t the virtue, they are my [...]
Razor’s Edge
I walked upon a razor’s edge, My feet were bleeding crimson red, The pain was great, I slipped and fell, And landed in the pit of Hell. And Satan greeted me with glee, He said, “How are you, can’t you see, That you are in my world to stay? I own your soul and you [...]
Conquest
Why you keep solitude as your soul-mate?โ€
I realize how charming I am, in my loneliness and seclusion.
And perceive the heart-touch of the Creator, on my indelible wounds.โ€
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