Self Determination Self Determination It’s never free There is always a cost Self determination Requires 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
A prayer to my murdered muse I have done you Oh, so wrong. I have never given you What you need Forgive my failure
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
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
Scrap Metal Driven too long with out coolant With out lubricant, my wife Blew the head gasket on the old Buick century. Now lifeless on the flatbed. Wait
Letting go Letting go Is not a choice That I can just make There are no simple steps I can mechanically perform 3
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
The Cost Our love cost you dear It cost you all A price I would have willingly pa Though that cost Sadly landed on you
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
Do you really hate me? once you loved me i know this is true its veracity is beyond a doubt once your face lit up when I entered your vision
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
Pieces 2014-12-28-21-44-05 It is a myth When they say “The pieces you give away You never get back” 1
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
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
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
Holding on You are a pain I can’t put out of You are an ache I can’t cease to The momentary joy worth limitless Knowing the pain that was before m I chose to embrace that momentary 1
Possession She was never mine I was never her’s Neither loved as a possession Both possessed By the love we shared
What have you done? I’m not sure whether I love or ha The me I am because of you You reminded me How good it felt To feel without reserve 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
We cross one another In the street. Pensive glares pregnant with meaning. Imagined Memories. Greetings between Former lovers wrenched 1
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
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
The Callous It didn’t happen all at once The stress of impact And the heat of friction Combined Has a natural result
A day in August There was a day. it was in August we visited your mother in the hospital. Afterwards we wen to a beach side burger joint. 1
Something; more or less 2015-01-12-22-48-02 I’m on to something new Just trying to get over you What in the world am I thinking? Was it really that much?
