Its always been true

Despite attempts to hide

Layered sediment concealed

Mounds of lies upon lies

Personas of appeasement

Trading truth for comfort

Rearranging my outsides

Pretending to be perfect...

I used to think Brave was an award

Battles won, new paths forged

Many lessons I’ve learned these days

Sometimes courage is just walking away

No longer fighting, needing to be heard

Embracing the silence, not saying a word

Strength is balanced equal parts

Removing the shield, bearing your heart

Expose the soft side, vulnerable and free

Bravery is daring to live authentically...

I stand before you with hopeful eyes

Your edges are glistening, sharp as knives

A familiar image nostalgia contorted

Eyes empty pools, black, distorted

Duality is opposites on the same thread

Scales balanced, joy the bedfellow of dread

A siphon of energy a thief in the night

But is it really stealing, if I don’t fight

I burned bright as the sun, a dying supernova

Your handiwork imploded my false ...

I’ve played it a million times

Rewind, play, rewind

Details seared in my mind

Final wishes determined

A lifetime on fast forward

Unfolds in this hospital bed

Generations of tragedy at play

Interconnected fates

Woven tapestries collide this day

Culminating in a moment

Innocent eyes say their goodbyes

She weeps behind porcelain mask

Tasked with protecting his dignity

The Weeping Widows first ...

I saw it slipping that night

Aglow in Summer’s star light

I believe for a second oh so brief

You exposed the fire writhing beneath

Swept up in a feeling floating on air

We dropped the act, it was crystal clear

Bathed in green light and dopamine

We floated above the shadows pristine

Beautifully broken fused with blood

Stained distorted and covered in mud

Cloaking the light within dim and recluse

W...

Not just another walk in the park

This..this one…was other-worldly

Obsessive and unrelenting

Vicious yet fictitious

Unlike any vessel I’d consumed

From the moment I saw you

It took everything inside not to run

Should’ve could’ve would’ve

A dark and twisty rollercoaster

I leaned into loss and power

Tasted light and shadows

How does one just go on

Knowing and not wanting to

The depths of wondrou...

Why you gotta play me now

Wow

I see all your lousy lies

Eyes

Reflected, dissected mirror

Deliver

Lessons as old as time

Rewind

Battleground of dark and light

Appetite

Destruction and rebirth

Hearth

Bringing forth the stone

Hidden away and tarnished

Polished

Shiny and new with promise

Astonished

The Revelation on Myself...

He was graceful while holding doors

And my throat

A walking contradiction

sweet and full of vindication

silent violence

Chess moves logical yet absurd

Clinging to every word

push then pull then repeat

Lovebomb, devalue, ghost, block, delete

See what you don’t know at first

Is the Brilliant Neanderthal

Gets off on the hurt

Calculates and plots perfect timing

Waiting to strike when you’re light...

She knelt before him

Hands beneath a silver platter

The Ace of cups awaited the king

Her battle scarred heart beating

Placed poetically atop white doilies

Bloody but still beating

It was his for the taking

Held, beheld, beloved...

Broken and brilliant I thought.

AWAKENED

Flickering shadows dart across the ceiling

My eyes a lustful pyre keen

AWARE

A belated push present for the butterfly

Climbing in my bedroom window

ALIVE

The Wolf with hazel eyes of a generous boy

Stolen innocence taught him to lie

A MESS

Prayers to the sky as I fear the worst

Stories of Neverland & Wendy’s before me

I wonder how long until he...