he doesn’t get to decide when I’ve voiced my pain enough after years of crushing my soul. he abdicated that right each time he stabbed the soft side…

I don’t really mind growing older... I mind growing older without you. May I

On a chilly northern beach A white shell & a red rock share t… One shimmering on a shrine aligned… One tucked into a driftwood nest,… by the proclamations of a child bo…

You are where my dreams go when lo… My soul seeks yours in freeing wor… Your heart will always be The Mis… Though I still hope the “missing”… ...

Buried ‘Neath my Skin I considered another Something only you A hidden clue—connector of hearts Our secret

Frosty greetings on the green outs… Icy tracings left by frozen spectr… Mirroring the lonely lines inside… Where chilly ghosts of you remind… That as the summer brown-eyed Sus…

If I made you feel like just one of several parentheses in my life, I am sorry, full of remorse, apolo… The truth is I wish you had been… (my heart remains enclosed by your…

As the rain falls now past midnigh… and I am wet with satisfaction contemplations wander: I know intricacies of desire, the maps of my pleasure

Midnight aches My body shakes Stifled tear to hold you near Pleading ask