Divided World 2015-01-01-19-13-39_poetryx World Divided I sit here alone waiting on the edge harsh reality 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
We cross one another In the street. Pensive glares pregnant with meaning. Imagined Memories. Greetings between Former lovers wrenched 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
Carnal knowledge Everyone thinks they know what is best. The path they have chosen Must fit all. Knowledge of Right and wrong 1
The hustler What are you selling Everybody is That thing that you have That’s icing and fizz Every encounter
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?
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
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
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
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
A prayer to my murdered muse I have done you Oh, so wrong. I have never given you What you need Forgive my failure
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
Pieces 2014-12-28-21-44-05 It is a myth When they say “The pieces you give away You never get back” 1
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
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
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
Letting go Letting go Is not a choice That I can just make There are no simple steps I can mechanically perform 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
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
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
Lamenting Eden Naked and unashamed The garden abandoned Acceptance exchanged alienation in judgement alone 1 1
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
Insecurity I can no longer trust my mind not to betray me, and devour me To bury me with thoughts of insecu Was it love was it something else
Lost my thought I’ve lost it again The words were just there Right on the tip Of my mind Now they’ve descended
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
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
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
