You left me in the rain You said you would be back with an umbrella It has now been 2 hours Yet I have stayed Why did I stay in the rain Because I believed that you would come back And I still believe

Part IXX So, he got the best of me; young, untouched, naïve, conforming… I cannot have a do over, now I am pushing fifty, survived a myriad of physical calamities, never even entertained filling his spot; I cannot go through that again – educated but…

Sometimes i judge myself, this world is so hard to live in, I just want to be me…

Holding hands with you Intimate despite the stares Fingers, intertwined

you put on your white socks and commented on how ugly they are and i realized nobody likes white anymore. it’s way out of fashion.

It stands abandoned Like a women in shock Quite,alone and still Soundless it stood No one lived inside Like she becomes speechless Nothing to speak The windows were closed No one looked from them Like she shuts her eyes Refusing to see The house looked…

A pin pricked her and blood fell to a fitted sheet of fabric, that was lying on the oak workplace, she couldn’t bare herself to sew the pleat. Many men wanted her to tailor their suits complete, but all she wanted to do was efface….

Close your eyes and imagine a place: Always spiral stairs from the entrance- an oak wooden door Accessed from a hilltop, but the building is ethereal So as not to ruin the landscape. No one else can come here; they do not know the way….

There are things I can’t speak about. I want to. I try But they stick in my throat and won’t come out. They are things that were done to me That stole my innocence My confidence My voice   The counselor says What would happen…

I saw her drowning She was so small and so scared We could all see her from above in the murky lake frantically flailing about. She didn’t know how to swim Her face grew grim with fear and panic But she didn’t close her eyes, she…