Used to trust each other,

No doubt we have a good time.

One day those negatives occurred,

Selfish, fakement plus dishonest, and more.

Separated us from each other.

Replaced with suspicion,

distrust, feel strange to close friends…

We still believe in the power of love,

Hope one day can trust each other again....

I look out the door

And it’s there no more.

What could it be?

Someone’s here for me.

Its lurking in the trees

Or maybe it’s in the peas;

It knocks at night

Giving me much fright.

Could it be a bear?

Or just the air?

I sit and stare

Calm and in prayer.

I begin to prepare

If it dares,

And I dredge

With my hand on knife’s edge....

Nothing is right

Everything has something wrong

People call me crazy

But I know my mind is sound and strong

Don’t lie to me and say it’s fine

Because I know you’ve twisted it

No matter what it is

There’s something wrong, even just a little bit

Hiding, lying, sneaking

Something is always going on behind the scenes

Intentions matter not

You did bad things and used corrupt means

Know I don’t tr...

The fingers of suspicion finished pointing

before the hands had started to applaud

the knuckles bared like teeth that needed filling

the nails hardly blunter than his sword

Her trust had not survived the last confession

It left a taste that clung to every word

And nothing he could do would stop the burning

Though it was undersaid and overheard.

The trouble with suspicion is it lingers

Hangs a...

You know when

Your suspicion

It’s the way you

Your act

Around people all the

Time the

Way you walk that

You can

Tell right out the

Back for

Some people in

This world

The tone of your

Voice when

Some ask you

A question

You get all shaking

Up and

Get nervous in

Sweating really

really really bad

That when

You...

Arms too skinny

Face too hollow

Legs too boney

The faraway look in your eyes is hard to follow

Wide smile as plastic as a doll

Stomache not showing any meat at all

Hazel eyes artificially bright

Actions mechanically performed

Words twisted with a bitter edge

What’s this strange though making me feel alarmed?

Kitchen pantry fully stocked all month

It’s like all this time you’ve never eaten lunch...

In shadows deep, where doubts doth ever dwell,

Suspicion's poison spreads its venom wide.

A seed of mistrust, it doth grow and swell,

A specter haunting hearts on every side.

'Tis like a serpent, coiled within the breast,

Whispering secrets, sowing seeds of fear.

Friendship and love, by doubt are put to test,

And trust, once strong, doth slowly disappear.

The eyes doth wander, seeking hidden lie...

Heart racing, thoughts falling,

Pretending to be sleeping,

I try not to lose trust,

Think he’s with another bust,

His love I am losing,

Or not, but I am trusting

He won’t ever choose lust,

On our love, has fallen dust,

Or has it? That’s the thing,

I don’t know if it’s a fling

Or if he’s true and just.

Under the door comes a gust,

Up the stairs, a thudding,

The door opens, loudly creaking,

In he co...

You know,

There’s a difference between

Swamps

And Oceans.

Swamps have over hanging trees

That shed their exterior

Into shallow water

That murks with mud and moss.

Overgrown roots

Weave through like a maze,

A maze that only the swamp’s inhabitants

Can navigate.

The rotting air

Looms with fog

Almost trying to hide

The swamps ugliness.

Mere few can find things

That are lovable about the swamp,

Such...

There’s a lump in my throat

In more ways than one

Above my epiglottis

Near the bottom of my tongue

It’s an unfamiliar presense

That wasn’t there before

Putting weight on my esophagus

Shaking me to my core

I poke and prod and ponder

What this mystery lump might be

And it sinks down to my stomach

As the answer comes to me

I imagine IV fluids

Pumping through the bruised up vien

Of a pale exhau...