If only you knew how much I love you

How much I savor the sweet scent of your skin

Or the warmth in your strong, but gentle grasp

How much I can’t wait for you to make it home

And pull into the driveway of our loving farmhouse

How much I love the way you look at me

If only you knew how much you mean to me

How you’re in everything I’m thinking of

In every waking moment of every day

How you ar...

I am grateful for him

He is my heart, my soul

He is everything to me

He makes me feel whole

I am grateful for spring

The blooming flowers

The butterflies appearing

The afternoon rain showers

I am grateful for the moon

Her dazzling yellow light

Her glimmering reflection

Her breath-taking sight

I am grateful for my family

For the ones that show they care

The ones that love me dearly

The ones...

Who are you, lost soul?

The one with no name

Do you feel all alone?

Do you think about the past?

Wallow in the present?

Or hope about the future?

Do you think you know what you are?

The forgotten; out of mind?

The unremembered; the unknown?

Who are you, restless one?

Do you let your memories slip away?

Wince when someone calls your name?

Do you think about what could have been?

What you co...

You’re supposed to be my loving father

But you broke my heart and tore me down

Like I was something lacking a soul

You took away a piece of my spirit

And held it high; like a trophy

As if that piece was yours to take

You flip my words around

And tell me lies to my face

Like I was never blood to begin with

I don’t know why I keep trying

To find a new, better man inside

But I do, and it hurts me...

I know one thing

And it’s that I know nothing

This existence is full of mysteries

Hiding, not waiting to be uncovered

We think we know how the world works;

How this universe works

But we are merely pawns in a game

That we simply don’t know the rules to

Or pieces to an infinite puzzle

That no one will ever solve

We think we know how to survive this life

But death quickly picks us off one b...

It swirls like a vicious tornado

Ripping apart everything in it’s path

Destroying every little piece of you

It consumes the cloudless skies

Like a wild thunder storm

Crashing and cracking in the air

It fills the room like a flood

Pushing open doors, closed

And drowning everyone in the way

It makes your heart race

Like the beat of a drum

Or like the beat of striking lightning

It makes you v...

I felled a tree

She was dead and broken

Her spirit had been woken

Now, she’s free

She fell to the ground

Onto the grass

Her beauty could never last

Down with the crack of a sound

She needed to go

Her life was cherished and loved

She won’t be forgotten

She disappeared with the ebb and flow

Her soul to soar freely above

Escaping as the world goes rotten...

The gentle smile in your eyes

As I faintly touch your arm

Dancing to bluegrass

After a midnight snack

The way you laugh

When I tell a silly joke

The way you cry to yourself

When you see me break down

Soft forehead kisses

After a fight we both regret

Goosebumps on your arms

When I sweetly kiss your neck

The feeling of true love

It was all becoming real...

She sparkles and glistens

Over a yellow field of grass

On this quiet March night

Her luminous light

Shared with nature’s living

In the darkest hours

Her blue-tinted glow

Encompassed by a rainbow

Of her own atmosphere

She rips and pulls the tides

Across this broad land

Creating rhythm within us all...

This city sparkles

Like the siren-colored

Street lights

On a dark, lonely night

Like the smiles

On strangers faces

As they walk past one another

Like the freshly laid

Black pavement

Steaming hot

From the sun

This city sparkles

Like the snow

On a bitter,

Cold winter night

Like the gleam of

The glass windows

Lined down these

Crowded city streets

Like the lake

Glistening and swaying

In the m...