Locked Poems

My heart locked into the past

I'm tired

The past locked into my future
Locked into my now

I am so mad

Feeling the grief

How many years to go
Blindly 
Tightly to what should have been 

Now im old with no where to go

The past stole my future or did I give it all a way
To a past that never was

Remnants of the past
In my face
Hating

grandpas locked room

room has always been locked on attic stair
creepy thoughts entered when I used to care
older now, I am less psychic, I think
when I walk past, my neck hair does not shrink

missing since the fifties, where did Aunt Dee go?
frankly, it is much easier for me to not know
Putting my thoughts in the ground, willing to

LOCKED OUT

You cheated in our relationship
You said one thing, and it was actually for another
Supposed to be number one
Turned out into no number at all
I was put on pause
You were the cause
Always stepping out
Here and there all about
Mr. Swinger and Ms. Slinger
Decided to investigate
Catch you in the act 
Wasted no time
I found your address book
It wasn’t

REALITY OF LIFE

When you're hot
I mean when you start 
Glowing or winning 
Instead of them to flow 
They start looking for faults
Bringing the past you've outgrown to shine
Just to bring you down
Stay strong, so they won't think their plots or plans have been manifested.

When you're happy 
They'll do anything 
To make you bored 
Just to see you

Locked Away

Walking across
a college campus
classes done till Fall
I hear those lessons
never taught
on winds that truth recalls
The questions that we
used to prize
now locked away in files
To favor dogma’s
jagged edge
— in deaf self-serving bile

(Villanova University: July, 2025) 

Locked down justice

Nothing good ever came out of hell 
we all can see the enemy works on people's fear 
The fruits of disaster has been sewn into those consenting 
freedom has the choice to move without restraints attached 
removal of these rights has turned the system of law upside down 
passing laws that amount to curfew status

The Deep Sleep Locked My Soul

In the fake world the only true partner 
Who was really an angel guardian ,
His deep sleep is so miserable 
Which is just unbelievable ,  
I'm in grief by his sleep 
He  made my heart weep 
Why his sleep has locked my soul?
May be because of his honest role ,
He was such a

MEDITATION OF A LOCKED HEART

I preach love
to hearts sterilized by hatred.
No joy,
only trauma in these grieving souls.
My dignity has never worn chains.
I appreciate my life
by watching all its dramas unfold.
To be a free and just man
is not a crime.

No mask,
no role to play before these clowns.
I embrace the pain beneath my skin.
I laugh
at the vile ramblings
of these treacherous minds.
Their

When the Door Stays Locked

You’ll come 
Knocking on my door 
One of these days 

And you’ll know 
What it’s like 
To be able to feel your insides 

That uncanny descending feeling 
Like a rock being dropped 
In the ocean 

Buckling your knees 
With a thump of desperation 
On my porch 

Silence ringing 
In your ears so loud 
You can’t

Locked in

Nick was hurt one bright morn
Strokes hit his brain stem, connections were torn
They carried him off the rugby field
Horror began and an old world was sealed

It looked like a coma, but that was a disguise
He could only converse by blinking his eyes
Locked in, his body would not respond
With the outside world, a broken bond.

Anger flared,

It was just a glance, a spark that locked me in the prison of my thoughts

It was just a glance, a spark that locked me in the prison of my thoughts,
a hazy dream that repeats every night like the refrain of a lost soul,
never close, yet never far, you were a constellation illuminating every corner,
I found you in crowds and empty rooms, your face lived in every reflection of my

Maga Stat

Dear Homeland Security Director No-em
I feel compelled to write you this po-em
They won't let me post bail
Get me out of this jail
I'm not a gang member and want to go ho-em!

My bright and exquisite pink heart-shaped tat
is being mocked by a gangsta in a Maga hat
All hope I must banish
I don't even speak Spanish
My doomed

Locked Inside

I’ve got so much to say,
But my words don’t come out right.
Thoughts stacked in my chest,
Heavy, ready to fight.

I try to speak, but I freeze,
The words just slip away.
I need to let it all out,
But I don’t know what to say.

I’m screaming inside,
But my voice won’t break through.
I just need someone to listen,
To hear what

Locked door

Sometimes, I wish I would have felt a love that was true
That someone would have found me worth an 'I do'
What could of been
Back when
Never knocking on my door
No one made me soar 
Just alone and walking the floor
Once gave love a shot
Was too hot
So many feelings
My heart got to reeling 
Tried
Cried
Emotions got fried
Found love

Locked in Love

Yes, I love you — can’t you see?
A promise no one else has made, just me.

Come to me after testing the world’s deceit,
I’ll wait a lifetime, my heart will never retreat.

After loving you, I’ve locked my heart away,
No one else will enter — not now, not any day.

Seeing you smile even in autumn’s despair,
I bloom

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