Inside out, upside down

My heart bleeds, I can feel the blood running down my torso, between my breast like a waterfall of warm liquid. But I pull,  I pull even harder. I can feel my pain, my crushing, self destructive pain But I ignore it And still I…

Poem 5

Dearest Footprint Your presence fills me with delight Dearest Footprint There was a carriage Passed this way An hour ago Headed to the pike It did not have an engine And it did not have a sight Every ticket was bought Out of some complex…

Three Timed Stanzas

I. 60 Seconds The neighbor’s circular saw fills the humid summer afternoon with the incessant sound of buzzing II. 90 Seconds When we were children we would put our swimsuits on under our shorts and t-shirts put a beach towel in a bag ride our…

bugged

The cockroach lying on the sidewalk in front of me is dying on his back, legs flailing he looks like he is doing a workout video ‘exercise yourself to good health’ Kafka wrote of men, cockroaches cockroaches never write they don’t even know from wrong…

Umwanted update

I did not ask For update now In midst writing Stupid cow An hour’s past and here I sit I requested days to better fit But you have now Hijacked my form A poem behind I am forlorn

It’s You

You never seen me when I was around, I never made myself noticable to you until now. Childhood crush faded away when I moved away. Somehow, life placed us right here, right now. Living different worlds young running into different paths in separate ways into adulthood…

Waiting

You walked into my life And brought love back into it   My heart flourished and swooned And dreamed of forever   You walked out of my life And left despair in it   My heart broke into a million slivers And it will never…

Random Prompt #14

She was the epitome of frailty but, she had life running through her veins She was barely understandable absolutely inaudible. She had a temper that blew fire you wouldn’t want to be around her. She often looked tired like her life force had been sucked…