(2013)
Been wasting away in this hovel for too many days to count; wishing, hoping, scheming, sometimes even praying, for any way to get out.
I am that scruffy urchin trembling in the winter chill, with hungry eyes as wide as your fancy dinner plate, staring with an empty longing
I hold truth as the highest princi… I am a liar. I value honesty over all else. I am a thief. I expect integrity from you.
It’s only you that I can trust to hear these words as true. Those I know seem blinded by some notion or another about me. You are my closest confidant
I am crying now. I don’t know why. Am I supposed to know why it is I cry ? Though I always feel
That cranky old mongrel hound cooped up down the alley; he ain’t got no teeth no more but he still knows how to snarl. he gets them young pups all worked…
The storm is brewing. I smell it in the air. I am panicking. I fear this tempest might cost my life.
These words I cry do not come easily; as if they echo from the cold stone depths of a long forgotten tomb.
Seems no way out, but deep within. There’s a resonant voice calling from the depths of my being; I am not what you imagine me to be…
My father is dead, still he speaks through me; “Don’t say anything....OR ELSE!… There was plenty of “OR ELSE!” to go around.
I see no reason now to disguise this naked heart and soul of mine. You can hide there
Time wears away at me, like water on a stone, oh, so slowly, but inevitably, drop by drop,
I commit myself to God; sometimes, not often. I believe in God; sometimes,
I was seven years old. I approached the priest in earnest… “I want to take the lord Jesus in… He instructed me to kneel and pray… A week passed.
Cast adrift in an unknown sea. By my pride. Alone Missing you,