I’ve got a few ideas for prose and poetry, but how does one change what has been laid out for hundreds of years? How does one influence others to think of new ideas and new choices to be seen?

I guess I will just have to wing it...

“Look at you. Graduating. Starting a whole new life. You’re so happy, truly, I’ve never seen you look that way before. You have stars in your eyes, and that smile beams so brightly it could replace the sun. And you’ve done this all in your own, I didn’t lift a finger.

So brave, strong, wonderfully resilient.

Half of me is so proud of you for moving forward.

But all of me misses not being able t...

Some days the sky seems so clear it almost looks as if the clouds are reflective, and I can see forever.

Others, the mirror is smudged and I can barely see past my nose.

Take it all in stride my dear; most of us are lucky to have the days we do.

•••

I am the reason your days are numbered.

I end happiness, love, life. I break families apart and dash childhoo...

Now I’ve done it. I’ve gone and done one of the worst things I could do.

It was such a lovely evening.

Wine, roses, dancing, and your ever present hands making themselves known on the small of my back as we walked into your living room.

It was just supposed to be simple fooling around, but, it kept going.

And going.

And going until

I couldn’t think straight,

the only sensations were your to...

A night of cigarettes and ocean sand show me that life is not as complicated as it seems, life falls between the cracks and I find solice in the places I never thought I’d be.

The sky shifts as friends leave however, and calm turns to a thunderstorm so violent and beautiful, I can’t tell if it’s the actuality of the the night or my turmoil brought to existence....

Hesitantly walking across to the middle of the platform. It’s a nice sunny day, cool breeze, and over 1000 people all waiting on your next words. How had this happened?

You know as much as I do! I went to sleep last night as a tired college student beat after work and I’m waking up as the sole philosopher for a beaten down army on the eve of battle.

No acid trip could compare to something this s...

Hearing the booming laugh of a stranger brings back the image of someone who always tries their best to make the world a better place.

To share their laughter with others and bring a smile to everyone’s face.

It’s something so minimal it gets overlooked, until you come face to face with it.

I hope one day we can all laugh loudly, and without care....

I knew you were different when you told me how you couldn’t fall asleep after I left .

You still tasted me on your lips

Smelled me on your sheets

Kept me in your thoughts

And no amount of laundry soap or toothpaste or sheep counting could erase it.

I knew then and I know now.

-realizing you’re falling in love

How can I tell you I don’t think I felt anything other than numb?...

The playground wood chips stuck to the bottom of my thighs. I was thinking... I couldn’t stop thinking.

On a long night, questions rattling around my brain like pennies in an old tin jar I sit there hopelessly lost and angry at myself for becoming an unfamiliar pair of eyes. The things I’ve done, said, thought, have made my heart and mind tear into each other trying to rip apart the lid of this ...

At your most primal and instinctual moments,

you are indistinguishable from a forest fire.

So bright and passionate,

consuming all that hinders you

with a determination so raw it can’t help but show you at your core.

Who you are.

So rage, my sister, brother, rage

and continue on your way,

confident in where you’re going.

Bright and impossibly dangerous....