In another life you may have been the man I’ve always wanted. In a time of shadowed trees and purple skies. In a place before truth herself betrayed you and doubt filled your every thought. In a different world I could have been the queen…

Pray for your daughter Living in sin Pray for your sister The heathen Shame her Make it harder Goad her Make it heavier Brand her with your letter It glows raw red Load her with your judgement It poisons like lead All in vain You…

I am enormous and majestic. People wear my image as a symbol of wisdom. In Hinduism I am divine. Often mistreated by man. Kidnapped by from my homeland to be used for the amusement of humans in the circus. Abused. My habitat being infiltrated by…

Blood lay scattered On a sacred ground Such a destruction Never seen around Lakhs of dead bodies Look up in heaven Standing in the middle Was a group of seven Five brothers in unity While a cousin stand alone The incarnation of Lord Says the…

Trapped in reality, Feeling like a prisoner, I work so hard Trying not to be broke, Only to realize I work hard to be unfortunate. Trapped in my thoughts, They own me, Guiding me in directions I never knew existed. Trapped in love with a…

You feel it The buzzing in the air about your head Electrified You are being watched, senses heightened, You look around frightened For an unseen assailant The light washes out the colour Transforming the landscape into blocks Of brown and blue and khaki green Your…

Your first dog is a first love Even if she has a chronic sore on her back and gets fat and tired so you hardly notice she is missing when she wanders into traffic and dies. There was still that moment when Ginger and I…

strike from the sky, you…like some deity, as always, like… Zeus…who intensified every living thing, from out of the soul and into my mouth. avoided eye contact, set the match of fire, turned straight to gathering flame, static, electric, knew what you were doing, intensified,…

People take for granted that animals have no feelings, Given they can’t talk , there is so much they are concealing, I think of the elephant and how they truly shed true tears, You know they feel hurt, you can tell they have fears.  …

Let’s talk about those creatures who are the darkness, who are the night. Who are they? Bats. Bats, those tiny palm-fulls of fur in flight. Those big eyes and noses that glisten like they’re glazed with sugar syrup. How are those sweet things the cause…