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...
