(2014)
I awoke from a deep sleep and knew the reason was to write I love you
It must be a wednesday or a friday or any day at all for I am painfully aware of the wo… that consumes me
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
Loving you was never sweet like the taste of vanilla the way I thought it was supposed to be It was more like
So much time passes without feeling a single thing that I think I would give anything
Everyone sees god in a different light but I was born without eyes
I get my silence in five minute doses before the plane overhead brings me back to earth
I grew up in a house built in 1937 long before codes and regulations and sometimes
The road is long and winding like nothing you can imagine Too many off ramps to count but too few in hindsight
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
If nature were so flattered by poems written with itself in mind as people are we would be moving mountains
I awoke in the dark next to you and more alone than ever I was amazed to hear your heart beating from
I write sharp words with a sharper knife on page after page of what might as well be the skin of my back
I thought I could drink you away but I had to stop being so drunk on you first
Everyday brings a new death in three words give or take Some days I drown
