(2014)
I wish you had told me that on the good days kissing you would make me think that I knew what happiness was and on the bad days
I’ve kept my eyes closed most of these past eighteen years because I find it just as dark
I grew up in a house built in 1937 long before codes and regulations and sometimes
Autumn sneaks in preceding dormancy Leaves take on new beauty with nothing left in them but a fa… Individually insignificant
I get my silence in five minute doses before the plane overhead brings me back to earth
I know that you were there in my dreams and in my arms Every dream we
I feel empty unceasingly until you come along and fill my heart to bursting
I wrote this while thinking of you so I guess you could say this poem is eight years in the making
You were the wind beneath my wings but I was Icarus so all I did
Life is an uphill struggle Nothing comes easy and only hard work pays off I don’t like hard work was my 5 word protest
I was like a rain cloud over a small garden and dammit if you weren’t that garden so full of flowers that I fell in love
I see words screaming for attention etched in the lines of your face Let me look closer
I thought I could drink you away but I had to stop being so drunk on you first
I awoke in the dark next to you and more alone than ever I was amazed to hear your heart beating from
Everyday I visit the only writers block I know to hone my words and wit and help them cut deeper into the skin
