When shadows fall and day departs,

I mourn a love that once did bloom,

A fragile blossom snapped and gone,

Thy vacant chair, a dusty room.

The echoes of thy laughter die,

Like petals scattered on the breeze,

Yet tender memories still I hold,

A treasured sigh on bended knees.

With faith I'll search the hallowed ground,

Where buried love yet holds its sway,

And trust that there, new blooms are f...

Remember

When we used to make mud pies

And potions out of dirt and pond water.

Or when we dug for worms

Even though my dad would get mad

That we dug up his grass.

And we’d go playing in the woods

Looking for salamanders

Or for wild berry bushes.

You remember,

Don’t you?

You have to remember.

We spent so many hours

Days

Weeks

Years together as a kid

We always played together

Together.

 ...

Shut up

Your too loud

Get out of my head

Stop buzzing

Shut up

I’m not doing this

Not going back

To that awful night

Shut up

That’s my reason

I don’t want an out

This time

Shut up

Please

I’m scared

So very scared

Shut up

Fine

I’ll do it

But there are boundaries

Rules

For our expression

Get out of my head

Get out my head

Head, get out

Get out

Out

Bleeding

Out

Please stop

I’m frightened

Shut u...

A small pitter patter of rain begins. For anyone else, rain might mean dreadful times. Times filled with sorrow and pain.

Or it may mean evidence of springing hope, a rainbow on the other side, a light of green when the gloom finally leaves.

But for me,

it just means Rose.

It had been a hot day, but the grey in the sky warned of a storm.

I was kicked out of the house. Pa got home from wo...

Tears are streaming down my face

Along with water from the rain

I bet up there you feel the same

One heart, two halves

One’s beating, the other is maimed

My half’s barely getting by,

Without your sunshine from the sky

Send some please, or I might die

One heart, two halves

One is thumping, the other has died

Remembering the day I met you

Your eyes a clear and crystal blue

I didn’t know our friend...

My memory isn’t my own. Maybe it used to be but this person in my head is not me. She is happy, she is beautiful, she is pure. Pure hearted, pure minded. I no longer recognise myself nor do I recognise this personality that seems to follow me. I no longer see me. I see someone who tried and failed. I see someone who wishes things were different. I hate who I have become. I hate myself. No, I despi...

I was so small

Once

Once upon a time

Or was I?

I don’t recall the time

Just

Just a feel

How to describe?

I remember it

Well

Well enough

I was full of joy

This treasured memory

Happy

Happiness and joy

And balloons and laugher

I don’t know what it was

When

When was I so young?

I was such a happy child that day

I know it meant the world to me

This

This extraordinary birthday

Just because that t...

My childhood is running out.

I’m almost 18!

Some think that’s a good thing.

I think it’s a bad thing.

18 means your no longer a child.

You learn responsibilities now.

You don’t have time to party.

But before 18.

You could go to the park with friends.

Ride down a steep hill and crash a bike.

Childhood means being reckless and creating fun memories with friends.

As 18 slowly creeps by I think abo...

Memories are the wardens of the prisoners of time

Each awakened day curated by an unforgotten fine

That governs the quality of the here and now

And hinders possibilities of futures that only thoughts can patent

Memories are memoirs of an era in a timeless matrix

Used to organized the emotions of consciousness created

Not the jailers that hold our wounds hostage and unaided...

Tw.

views are so different from another’s eyes

Seeing things uniquely, all with lies

But for me it’s black or white, no greys

Time passes counting the days

Till I’ll be released, there’s no sell by date

Trapped here filled with hate

I’m looking back in retrospective

Trying for some perspective

Just keep failing and hurting

End in burdening

The people I know, never leaving it alone

A dog beggi...