Moving across the water’s surface Soft breeze dancing across my face Little birds singing their songs Sun rising in the east Come sit here with me Beside the lake And listen Let go Be

Anxiety makes fear amplify But I will never let it win So I’m staring them all down. I imagined caskets, Smiled back at the clowns, And ate spiders. Now, I can Devour Fear.

too early they begin this morning machines pushing dirt back and forth steel jangling hard next-door a make-work project mailbox laden with dusted raindrops now  

If you hate yourself Give your love to someone else Ignore the temple housing your soul And trade for something shallow. A pocketful of coins Won’t buy a whole lot these days But put them in a wishing well And wish for the rest of…

the day that the white-coats came for me the darkness was overwhelming my isolation complete you added your music to placate the storm darkly brewing your words blew away clouds.

The journey there, with cause and reason Days of glad toil together Nights with gunfire so near Our laughter defiant Our love, quiet joy It couldn’t last Didn’t last Gone now gone …

Dissociation ripped me away From myself, denied me my mind Left a body lagged behind I only just got back From brain vacation I heard you cry If you want I am Here

One sea green suitcase, one celestial backpack. My markers returned to me. An apartment this time— two to a room, three rooms per apartment. Shifts of techs, 15 minutes. To be monitored. Find the patient, mark the room, move on. Group therapy: one facilitator, fifteen…

Fluttering fabrics Jovial camaraderie Everyone’s dancing

The hand that is dealt, from emergence to ashes, Unable to quell that need within, eternally alone, Until I saw the fire in his eyes. Wrathful fire, flames that burn with fervor and fury, Simultaneously they spark, incinerating us constantly, Until I saw the fear…