(2014)
That's all
Cousin. Brother. Best friend. All one person and now he’s dead.
Sister I love you, but only because I have to. That’s what momma told me, when I said I hate you. I hate the way you smile,
Trailing kisses, hands on my back, hold me close and I can’t breathe. Perfect romance, my heart beats fast,
Tapping fingers on a keyboard, writing directly from my mind. Stuck in the numbness of detachmen… not noticing the hours that tick b… Tracks from tears made slowly,
This morning, I was so happy. Clean and ready to work. I thought you would care. Care enough to clean me,
Lord, Things are unbearable. I have been shouting. I have been crying. Hoping you would listen.
Waking up in darkness, the moon shining through my window… With tear filled eyes I sit up and remember what I was dreaming. His smiling face shining.
I close my eyes to surrender to th… but instead get bombarded by image… Your smile flashes at me from the… Your laughter bubbles out, and it’s like I’ve gone back in ti…
I see your face. Lifeless and pale, resting on a pillow of white silk. I try to pretend you’re sleeping, but the tears in my eyes betray me…
I walk around, feeling whispers. Avoiding the eyes that prosecute m… The stares. The glares.
Peace comes: When laying under the stars. When wrapped up in his arms. When listening to bird song. When speaking to God above.
It’s a partly cloudy but terribly cold day. I’m running late for school and still have to scrape my truck windows of ice. I finally get there about five, maybe ten, minutes late to my U...
I was sixteen when it happened. My best friend Lilly convinced me to go to a party her boyfriend Joe was throwing and like an idiot I caved. As Lilly and I walked in the door she ran of...
center When I’m with you, I have no worries, but then I don’t see you, don’t talk talk to you,
center Love is a simple thing, but we complicate it. We muddy it up with doubt and fear… Doubt in ourselves.