Poetry

Why do people have to die and leave an unstoppable leak that is never quite remedied and your heart bleeds first loudly like a rushing river and then over time…

My soul is no longer in a cage of other’s expectations, definitions, or confinement. I’m riding the wind of freedom, I’m learning to fly. The horizon stretches out before me…

They said I shouldn’t be wild-hearted
Because it meant I was uncontrollable.
They said I shouldn’t be wild-hearted
Because it scared them,
And they didn’t understand why–

it is the hardest thing to watch someone you love in destruction mode denying their inner anguish pasting band-aids on bleeding gashes that spread and spread their darkness until they’re…

Show me to walk barefoot in the grass and feel the earth beneath my being. Show me the tales in my friends struggles, and the laughter of their freeing. Show…

Beauty’s in the eye of the Beholder. That’s what…someone (?) always says. But it’s still so damn confusing: There are too many Beholders nowadays. Let’s start with something easy: Fashion.…

Drip, Drip, Drip, Drip, Drip. This is my brain on Lyme’s Disease. About as useless as a leaky faucet in performing it’s basic function. Everything is slow and meandering and…

The War Inside My Body There is a war inside my body. My brain explodes with bombshells of pain, the fog of the frontline never clears. My muscles fire their…

Fight for Your Heart When the world crushes you with dream-killing deceit, ripping back the curtains of reality to show you the trickster lurking in shadows promising happiness and home…

Broken & Unbroken There is always a moment when I feel broken and everyone else feels whole. I often wonder, Am I the only one? The only one wrestling, the…