Morning coffee fills the air l listened for you Outside rumbles the grey skies The pace quickens I lay on the floor wrapped in sheets All is silenced then clapped I heard the thunder roar Lightening flashed over my soul Coffee your fading steps Soft…

we lose nothing by loving the weight of a heart the fragility of a feather both can be a hundred pounds depending on the handful regardless of how our mind weaves regret if we hold steady we lose nothing

And what if I never see you again? What if your hair and heart and humor are lost forever, save files given away and erased, a concrete cat with a guitar and a grin forgotten and thrown away? How to heal when so little remains:…

my mother’s shoe boxes stack to the ceiling, a visual representation of all she left behind and all she never will.     3am and his footprints are still in the hall, red boots with silver buckles. 10pm and she can hear her daughter crying…

  Love Always In my heart For those I choose My actions do show Feelings are always there Because of you I can share All that life brings for us to bear Every day you are there heart and soul My life your life our…

I write my secrets in the stars holding hope one day the constellations will catch your eye Leave the words painted on black canvas The light to hold all I can not say If they should fall place my dreams there May this longing light…

I let you slip   I tried, with everything I am made of, and not made of, to keep you buried in me deeper than every secret I’ve ever kept in darkness by fire and blood and wine. I tried.   But I let you…

“Assured and sure” but confused, At your failure to Read the inner meaning of My ways…   Don’t want to speak my heart; Better read from my deeds.   Don’t want to beg for care; Better care before I dare.   Don’t want to wag…

If banged my soul against a brick wall Time and time again Waiting for this all to end – The hellfire drawing me like a moth to the light The passions I wish to deny But they dance across my indulgent smile The too eager…

Vulnerable emotions Unspoken Spill onto vast white Stained by my hand Kept in secret places Rarely shared   Hidden in journals Bound by rejection And unworthyness   Concealed tears Pain and joy Blurring lines In between Words that echo Forever captured On page Is my…