Poetry is explaining what my lips are unable,

When my fingers & toes are twitching under the table.

Sometimes I try but the words come out sloppily;

For some reason, this way, I can express my thoughts properly.

I try to explain but my mouth can be dodgy,

So I’ll rhyme instead of converse, it’s way less stodgy!

I can use different words, I might not every day,

It’s fun, mischievous; like a chil...

Flowers dont care what you happen to wear today.

They certainly don’t worry about the state of your hair today.

Flowers dont stop growing because a ‘friend’ did you wrong;

They continue to flourish, saying “Look, life goes on.”

When hope feels small & you’ve feelings of sorrow,

Plant a seed, watch it grow & believe in tomorrow!

Another thing I’ve learned from my lonely pit,

Wherever there is ...

Everything red, that once was green.

Rage & anger replace peace & serene.

Where I once smelled safety in the spring smelling leaves,

Now lurks danger, worry & all the pet peeves.

“Green for go, let’s do this!” old, naive me would have said.

New me, only see’s dangers & no way’s; I only see red.

I took for granted, how everything felt so positive.

I yearn for that long lost feeling, now I fe...

You were there but never present,

I tried to speak but you never heard.

No, nothing was ever horribly unpleasant,

But my God did you make me feel like an outcast nerd.

I came to you & you laughed in my face,

From young I learned to cry on my own.

Holding myself in a lonely embrace;

Tears a flowing, I was longing for home.

I swam with the sharks, you left me surrounded by,

I survived the mons...