Upon this day, I come into existence,

living and breathing, I learn to survive.

Body and soul, this is my fate,

an imposed passage of time.

Every effort is a necessary irrelevance,

knowing that one day I will be but a memory.

To begin, the dawn of a memory,

lungs breathing, blood pumping, ensuring my existence.

Movement protects me from immediate irrelevance,

and drives me to survive.

During the ...

Teetering dangerously on the precipice,

feet frozen solid to the cliff edge,

I look longingly into the abyss.

For there lies, I sense, an intangible depth of understanding,

an indescribable consciousness of self,

only a step away, but still out of touch.

I meditate on a multitude of successes,

accumulated alongside struggles,

as the sand in the hourglass dissipates into emptiness.

On the e...

She awoke abruptly, torn from a dream. Her grandmother, who had been dead for over forty years, stood beside her great aunt, on the front porch of an old farm house, one that she did not recognize. They both wore lovingly used aprons atop flowered cotton dresses and had dancing smiles on their faces, like they had a secret that they could barely contain themselves from sharing. “We found it esp...

Worry worry worry me

In that state, do I be

Feeling feeling feeling of dread

Thoughts rolling over and over in my head

Sweaty sweaty sweaty and wet

Do my palms always get

Knotting knotting knotting up

In this state, is my gut

Squirming squirming squirming are

Worms in my belly that go too far

Moths moths moths taking flight

Now I am losing sight

Controlling, directing, mastering my thoughts

In ...

I loved you from afar, years in yearning

desperately daydreaming in earnest

unrequitedly

when you had no idea, of me

I loved you closely

not believing my luck

when you acknowledged, my heart

I loved you still

when you left me behind

broken

and again

every time you showed up

dancing on my pain

I loved you yet

years apart

walking alone in my memories

Never again will I love you

yet, again, st...

a life without her

is empty

a shell is all that exists in her absence

I hesitate

to make that final gesture

eliminating her forever

I

fight

sob

mourn

my constant desperation

for she

is me...