Rose bud

If flowers were alive, would you pick them up?

As the earth corrodes, will you take a stand?

When the pain is unbearable, will you end it all?

 

Do you eternally long for a happy

ever after.

How deep are your roots?

Deep enough to last

a lifetime?

Caged

A bird in a cage
Always wanting to

Fly
Can you keep it there
Without it biting off your

Hand

One day
you’ll blink
And the bird will soar
Away

~.%

Second Wind

Stuck in a whirlwind
Of cataclysmic proportions
I blow like a tornado
And each and every thought
That crosses my mind
Screams out!
Out of the pain
Out of the shattered promises
Splattered hopelessly
Sharp like broken glass
No more pain
No more holding the mirror
To your bad face revealing your
Tattered morals and wicked eyes
No more rain
The time for redemption is here
I will not be your cane
And as sad as it may be
I must retreat from this game
Retreat from this game
Of destruction

Under Pressure Poem 14

Under pressure

Head explodes

Heart implodes

So much

Too much

Under pressure

Heart pounds

Chest hurts

Tears held back

Welling up

Under Pressure

Ready to go

Give it your all

Push harder

Find more

It is never enough

Keep going

Under pressure

Can’t give up

Don’t slow down

Push it, pull it

If you stop you’ll die

If you slow you’ll cry

Under pressure

Use it

Make it work

Head explodes

Heart implodes

Thats no excuse

To stop

Selfish Love

Love is blind

Love conceals the inner feelings

The childish

The selfish

Need for all to be about ego

Instead trust in spirit

To light the way

Bring forth the messages

And the lessons to be taught

Love unselfishly

Is not all about oneself

What is the material gain?

But more what is the emotional bond?

The sharing, the joining of two separate spirits

Alas this is not so in some cases

There is duplicity surrounding the union

Unclear messages, confusion

Selfish intention awaiting manifestation

Hurt, pain and manipulation

Selling oneself short

Shutting out the world to hide the shame

To become invisible, no voice, no presence

No nothing darkness and heaviness

Instead of light and lightness of spirit

A battle of wills,

Who will be the victor?

No one because the love will die

And without love you have nothing

tit for tat

i cry

you dry

i wait

you take

i talk

you walk

i watch

you scotch

i listen

you diss’n

then you cry

i dry

you wait

i take

you talk

i walk

you watch

i scotch

you listen

me diss’n

you fly

i die.

 

Street Signs 10PM

Stop

Yield

Lane Ends

Exit Here

Wrong Way

Merge

Trucks Entering

Construction Ahead

Road Closed

Wrong Way Go Back

 

I really did see this last one in Massachusetts