Self Determination Self Determination It’s never free There is always a cost Self determination Requires 1
Self loathing A powerful master Frequently cloaked Obscured by half truths Demands masked as duty Though there is nothing lovely in 1
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
Over the hill When I got over the hill the girls hooted and I skated down the fun side of the arched bridge over the river. Carving hard
The hangman There’s a hollow place Where your heart belongs Its vacuous emptiness Drains all compassion Consumes without satiation 1 1
Burning Passions pit perfervid. Smoking cinders, and coals endure petulantly past their prime. Blisters and puss
Vanilla Milkshake All the spaces between. All the things left unsaid. They are like the air packed into a vanilla milkshake 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
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
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
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
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
I Broke Something Beautiful I broke something beautiful I had prior commitments I was not free to live out that fantasy
Exchanging griefs I can’t help wondering Was that really you Could it have been so High If I could answer 1
Divided World 2015-01-01-19-13-39_poetryx World Divided I sit here alone waiting on the edge harsh reality 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
A prayer to my murdered muse I have done you Oh, so wrong. I have never given you What you need Forgive my failure
The Picinic The two of them sat face to face by the banks of the narrow stream smoking cigarettes, throwing stone and dismantling 1
