Drained of color

Hues fall from fingertips

You stomp in the pool of rainbows

The sun is gone, but my rain pours

I step into

my tightly fitted shame suit

I zip it up, blacken my view

You don’t have to see me anymore: I love you....

I shall shed no tears,

For why weep for a life that’s gone—when it was a life well lived?

Death came, swift and quiet,

And in his grasp, you slipped away,

Out of reach, out of sight.

Would I choose to know you still—and accept the pain,

Or would I trade the joys we shared—for a life untouched by loss?...

You never know how far a hill goes

Until you get to the top

You never know how far you can

Go until you fall...

(This reads to me like a folk song)

As the sun melts the blues of today

And the fire of the sunset burns away

Twenty-four hours of time done and spent

I blink, and suddenly the day’s gone and went

Inky night approaches by and by

Sometimes you’ve got to lose your footing to fly

28,000 more will come

Just counting down until I’m home

Yet the midnight sits so bleak and dreary

And every night my ...

Am I so wrong for weeping

In the times you are away?

I can only love you deeply

Never any other way

In nightmares I have lost you

And when I wake I fear

They have become reality

Because you are not near

I know we’ll be united

Post this agonizing night

But though dark is not eternal

It makes us forget the light

So in moments my strength fails me

I cry out to skies of gray

Am I so wrong for w...

Someday turns grey,

As she looks onward to the skies,

She took all the colour with her as she flies.

My head grows black,

I’ve looked for her all around,

But now she’s sleeping underground.

Please be kind,

More than she’ll ever know,

It’s all I wish for before I go.

I hope you know,

Which way to go,

For my sake, take it slow.

You were taken too soon,

You should’ve grown old,

In my pocket is yo...

You have lost me, but I have not lost you.

My life and its reminants are all that you are still.

Live on a wire, dancing in my head with all indications of uncold, breathing, exuberance.

My body knows presently how it feels to hug you as I did when you were here.

The hot bubbles in my chest ready to explode into a distinct laughter that only you brought out, still sit here waiting.

Your l...

Loss. No, I’m not talking about losing money or losing what can easily be replaced. I’m talking about genuine loss, the kind where you lay on the floor crawled in a ball, asking the people why, why me god?

What did I do to make you this way, why me?

Why will nobody help me?

All those unanswered questions you made, you said them all out loud. Who would have thought that something as simple as...

Once lost,

A foot to a feather,

The wind blows

And the mountains change,

With us,

A never ending river.

Normality,

Trading bark for bite,

An empty voice,

Harsh against its light.

Formality

Traded in for something more in range.

Heavy mist hangs

In that never ending night.

Sharp,

Like a roses flower,

It drips it’s red paint

Underneath.

Staining soulful complaint

Flooding it with grief.

Tai...

It’s not just you,

Dad,

That I lost

It’s the safety,

Dad,

That I felt

Knowing you,

Dad,

Would be there

Seeing her,

Dad,

Differently

And now she,

Charlie,

Is my enemy

Because she,

Charlie,

Has turned away

Yes she,

Charlie,

Is gone

Just like you,

Dad,

Are gone...