I wake with heavy breathing Shadows dancing on the wall. I cannot see what is around me My figure growing small. I shrivle up in a corner

How is it that our prisoners Are better cared for than our home… How come expressing yourself Makes you weird or a freak? How come I can’t tell you you’re…

I stare at the slightly lit ceilin… Trying to keep from sleep. I won’t let go because I’m terrif… Of what might come after me. I’m done with all of the nightmare…

I feel a way I have never felt be… More passionate and loving than th… I am content with who I am with y… I am shadowed from my past. You comfort me when I need none

As I watch from the shadow I see your heart throb. Not a throb for love, Or joy, Or happiness.

As the wind whispers a hypothermic… I lay on the solid ground And observe the beauty of my froze… The icicles that fall from the bra… No leaves to portray their beauty,…

What are you doing to me? I am immature, you say, while othe… You’re the reason I am like this, You’re my weakness. You find ways of crawling under my…

I look at the clock and see that t… Tick, tock. Tick, tock. I wonder if I could ever make it… Slow it down, start it again. Maybe then I’d find peace in this…

I am from the slums of Minneapoli… Crowded streets where colors diffe… Fists a fly, bottles in the air On this cold winter night. From mountains to magnificent pine…

Silence, As I walk this lonely road. Silence, Unable to find my strengths. Silence,