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Insight, a Soliloquy

...Insight must be difficult for you when you’re wounded so easily. You can’t show it, of course, to show your scars and flaws would be considered weak to you, since they can be used against you. So you...

A Mother's Pain

...Two mothers who never met were connected by tragedy, murder and death.
They gave birth to two different offspring that in one moment would alter both women’s lives.

	Violet did her best to raise ...

Keeping Up With the Boneses

...Long before you were born, long before your great grandfather was born, in the time when magic was approximately eight times more plentiful than it is today, there lived a family in the remote part o...

Were You Ever Different?

...You’re still the same untouched and aloof
Too sharp for lies too blind for proof
No one comes close to your pace
A ghost with charm…a vanished face

Money chased becomes a stain
Crossing the li...

Mixing Paints

...I paint a smile on my face, mid-poem the smile
begins to crumble.
Who are these dark angels that cast such shadows
over my laughter.
The brush falls from my hand, now I sketch in charcoal -
teet...

Law Enforcement Violates Our Constitutional Rights Regularly Now

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they swagger in badges
hallways of fluorescent lies
drag me by the collar
into their personal theater of power

guns gleam like broken promises
questions barked through gritted teeth
hands...

Road To A Good Path

...Ups, downs, hurts and joys
Hopes, gritted teeth, warmth support 
Road to a good path....

I used to drive like that

...Driver on interstate has pressed his accelerator hard
I used to drive like that – daily
To and from work with gritted teeth
Expecting death at any minute
Racing here, there, nowhere really
The s...

PAPER CUTS

...I have in haste
Enraged the paper’s edge
Soft slit of idle pain
Awaits
A dash of sweaty salt

Red dots upon the page
Unmuttered curses
Venom spit
Through gritted teeth

No bandage
Will ad...

Flightlessly

...There are birds that leave the nest too soon
You are like that
All fumbling feathers and heartbreak with sternum kissing ground
You grew up early, Paige
I don't think you ever learned to fly corr...

Ghost-ed

...Today I ghosted someone
please don't ask why,
cause they really seemed sweet
and all I did was lie.

About my thoughts, intentions,
the date he asked to meet
he asked me to the pictures,
I sm...

Lobotomy’s Don’t Work On Me

...on a hill lied a girl
separated from the world
as she wrote, her words would choke,
stuck somewhere inside her throat,
through gritted teeth her lyrics beat,
ate away at her sleep
so up she loo...

Mirror morgue

...Haunted eyes stare through me,
Searching, longing, lost at sea,
Soundless cries echo within, 
A prisoner in her own skin.

Hidden traumas itch and gnaw,
While the circling buzzards caw,
hands ...

A broken me

...Gritted teeth so words can't escape, 
thoughts and feelings I've learned to hate.
wandering eyes avoiding the mirror,
hiding myself till I can see clearer.
wanting love but afraid to trust,
want...

Dont bring flowers

...Don’t insult me by leaving flowers when I’m cold,
Wrapped in earth unlived and old,
Something I can’t smell or hold, 
Might as well be crates of gold,
Just leave the flowers in the shop!

Don’t...

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