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
Self loathing A powerful master Frequently cloaked Obscured by half truths Demands masked as duty Though there is nothing lovely in 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
Today Today is the last day I am going to do this to myself The last day I will hold on to any hope Today is the last day
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?
Burning Passions pit perfervid. Smoking cinders, and coals endure petulantly past their prime. Blisters and puss
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
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
Divided World 2015-01-01-19-13-39_poetryx World Divided I sit here alone waiting on the edge harsh reality 2
Possession She was never mine I was never her’s Neither loved as a possession Both possessed By the love we shared
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
Lost my thought I’ve lost it again The words were just there Right on the tip Of my mind Now they’ve descended
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
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
What's not to love I love your grace Always seeing beyond The ruins left In the wake of sin I love your strength
The hangman There’s a hollow place Where your heart belongs Its vacuous emptiness Drains all compassion Consumes without satiation 1 1
The Picinic The two of them sat face to face by the banks of the narrow stream smoking cigarettes, throwing stone and dismantling 1
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
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
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
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
Letting go Letting go Is not a choice That I can just make There are no simple steps I can mechanically perform 3
You made me young You made me young Took away all my excuses You brought me to life Demolished ever inhibition You taught me to love
Self Determination Self Determination It’s never free There is always a cost Self determination Requires 1
Lamenting Eden Naked and unashamed The garden abandoned Acceptance exchanged alienation in judgement alone 1 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
