I'll take your silence as refusal I don’t know if you read these things But if you do I’ll take your silence as a 2
Lamenting Eden Naked and unashamed The garden abandoned Acceptance exchanged alienation in judgement alone 1 1
The rain Here comes the rain To wash away All the things the could have been Here comes the rain ( again) A cleansing flood 1
Letting go Letting go Is not a choice That I can just make There are no simple steps I can mechanically perform 3
Fit for hell; saved by grace Does it really matter Whose fault it was What’s been done Can’t be undone Anyways 2
Back turned I never told you a lie I was honest from the start You knew about my wife You knew who I was You accepted the facts 1
The way to a man's heart is... The way to a man’s heart Is through his stomach Or so the saying goes But things are seldom So simple as that 1 1
The hangman There’s a hollow place Where your heart belongs Its vacuous emptiness Drains all compassion Consumes without satiation 1 1
Pieces 2014-12-28-21-44-05 It is a myth When they say “The pieces you give away You never get back” 1
Fire The cherry red tip of ash falls from her cigarette to make love with a dry autumn leaf and set the forest ablaze. 1 2
I want to hate you I want to hate you I want to blame you For all the pain In my heart I want to hate you 1
Your Integrity holds me It has never changed My heart’s inclination. I am still drawn to you. Having known you I cannot see you 2
We cross one another In the street. Pensive glares pregnant with meaning. Imagined Memories. Greetings between Former lovers wrenched 1
The prodigal's dilemma Too long trapped Hopeless and caged Owned and enraged I saw a way out Extinguished my apathy
I have been proud I have been proud I have considered myself wise I have thought that I was Far above The failures of others 1
Unrequited If anyone but you Had told me not to talk to you They would never have succeeded I let you go Because you asked me to. 1
bittersweet I didn’t know what it was like to then you showed me what it was lik I didn’t know what it was like to Then you came along and accepted m I didn’t know I could feel so dee 1 2
Still holding (though I want to let go) Hope is so elusive It just won’t come near Hopelessness and foolishness Grasping to things that just aren’ I can’t seem to find freedom
Walking away 2015-01-12-19-24-55_poetryx You made it look so easy Walking away You made it look like It was nothing special 1 1
Men who go home to wives who don't care The million incandescent bulbs that line Gibbs St from Barrett Place to Main go out just after midnight. Stragg smokers sit or stand in the alley 1 2
Too many times Too many times you told me Too many times “if I had known” Too many times “ I wouldn’t do it Too many times “ I fell too far s Too many times I never measured u
Vanilla Milkshake All the spaces between. All the things left unsaid. They are like the air packed into a vanilla milkshake 1
Who Are You? Are you the person I met? The person I fell in love with? Were you really just someone else; Trying to be what you thought I w Are you anyone? 3
Who am I? Who am I now? I’m not the man I was before You’ve changed something Done something big You’ve opened up a door 1
Sticky pieces There are so many things I’d like to say to you But when I see your face My mind just goes blank I’m terrified 1
What's not to love I love your grace Always seeing beyond The ruins left In the wake of sin I love your strength
