I cannot count the years I fought. To get away from you. And, as I reach for that always distant pen... I cannot bring myself to describe the where, the when. ⇔ Reaching with youthful hand. Stretching with gnarled fist. Someday, freedom will receive its wish. ⇔ When the secular hold opens a book. From … Continue reading When Worlds Collide
Commandment of Remorse
Ashamed? Disrepute? How best do I measure you? Is your worthiness... A cost for virtue? Every trace of my being is laden with the commandment of remorse. Magnificent is the blood on the hands that intercept its due course. How typical your response! 'We all do things we are ashamed of!' What is the heft … Continue reading Commandment of Remorse
Dearest
Dear Loved One, Struggling through the last few days, have been an infliction of what was, and what I knew would always be. If I could put a handle on time spent with you. Nice and complete. Red, steel and made for pouring nourishment over the land...I would. But that image is not mine to … Continue reading Dearest
Mistaken by Night
A message so discrete. It came and went. As if, a game of pretend. What of the intention? To seep into a random dream. Grabbing hold of fragility. Pulling it by the feet. ♠ 'I miss you.' Only seems slight. Upon a midnight scene. Caught off my guard. It has been sometime, since witnessing. What … Continue reading Mistaken by Night
Shallow Shelter
There cannot be a blind eye...turned to the adversary of my kind. No indifferent far off shallow shelter. Hate can have a twin. But hate cannot survive in a well-oiled, painting from the walls of my mind. I am not a lone survivor. Just another brave companion to the road. I am a survivor. Brave … Continue reading Shallow Shelter
