Something happened to my heart I can’t follow where it strays Something took hold of me, My wild beating heart has left me It Betrays. Give me back my common sense, Im so sick and tired of the nonsense. It twists my form, and leaves me feeling a kind of dirty that cant be cleaned.Continue reading “Washed Away”
Category Archives: hard times
Letting It All Hang Out
She rides to treatment today with her knees drawn to her chest. She’s reading the book I started, and because she isnt the one driving she has now gotten ahead of me. The words drip off each page and fall like petals into her lap. Treatment today will be filled with questions I can hearContinue reading “Letting It All Hang Out”
Inheritance is Accidental
Daughter- I cannot take it back. I did not see it coming. I just watched the pain ravage you from within, Daughter- I hold you while you cry. Held your hand with breaking heart, and red eye both times in the hospital because for you it was harder to breathe than it was to die. Seeing theContinue reading “Inheritance is Accidental”
Tied Up
Lately my limbs have new knots Because Im tied up in your trees With branches that tangle and twist From ankle to wrist. And the song birds sleep in the palm of my hands… Their song like a prayer You cannot understand them, if you don’t care to listen There are people you meet who can level youContinue reading “Tied Up”
Shame
A thousand lies fell from my lips before I was old enough to vote. I lied about you to my friends, I lied to my friends about you. I lied about my age. I treated the world like my stage.. and I pretended that nobody noticed the cracks in my sidewalk. It was to coverContinue reading “Shame”
pretty good year
Change. 2012 brought nothing but the unrecognizable… These things I miss… Creature Comfort Self assuredness One of the most amazing people I will ever know. Good times had Friends who I somehow outgrew… I still love you. Innocence. That which I can live without… The insincere The selfish The foolish Voices raised in anger DebtsContinue reading “pretty good year”
