Piecing Poems

puzzle

...over a thousand pieces 
to complete my puzzle
a picture of me, my heart
piecing it together my whole life
fitting in a new piece
filling in the frame
never quite complete
       pieces break o...

Children

...Children will always remember the void,  
They will always recall the hands that couldn’t embrace them.  
They will always remember the troubles that nightfall brings,  
And the darkness that inva...

Wings and Wounds

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Like birds flying high over the world,
Words of love never unheard.
Loud voices echo through different phases,
No mistakes.., Just choices in these mazes.

Walking threads, edge tight like a...

The Fractured Poem

...They say the hardest shells hide the softest centers,
That diamonds form under pressure,
That the most beautiful songs are written in the dark.
I believe them.

I have seen mountains crumble int...

I wander through the rust of twilight, carrying your name like a bell

...I wander through the rust of twilight, carrying your name like a bell melted in a still-throbbing heart
I don't know if I love you or if my pupils just shine under your uncertain and fragile spell
...

Videos

...Videos of you replay in my head

Especially when I lie in my bed

I press rewind and I see your smile

And that soothes my mind for a while

 

Videos of you replay in my heart

Piecing t...

First mistake

...I loved You 

That was my first mistake, stupid from the start 

Plummeting statistics show, A fairy tale ending ends unfairly, on my happy ever after chart. 

Feeling over thinking, and Losing...

Windows of Hope

...The songs of the early nineties keeps ringing in my ears, it is the  joy and the melody that I continue to feel and hear, I can still feel the chills as the snowflakes drops on my window sill and  Sa...

To Say I Love You

...[W h a t  i s  l o v e  w i t h o u t  h e a r t b r e a k ?]
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I love you.
“I love you” is a weird phrase; what perplexes me most about humans is the effect words have on us. Th...

Almost 28

...It's almost my birthday,
and somehow I'm still here,
barely, but breathing - after a year of mental carnage.
Depression didn't knock, it broke in,
set up camp in my chest,
while psychosis turned...

Light at the end of the tunnel

...How many railroad ties will it take to get from here to where I'm going. Aimlessly rolling along the tracks without noticing the boxcars of baggage I'd been stowing. 

So I slowly started sifting t...

If My Life Was A Book

...If my life was a book
It would be the scattered pages
Left behind
And I've tried picking them up
And piecing them together
But so much of the narrative
Has been lost forever
People I've known
...

Spark

...Dust motes dance, and sunlight spills
Through dusty windows of my intellectual lair
The aged paper scent, comfort and snare
Surrounded by knowledge, a thirst I can't share

SPARK! A question bur...

Domestic violence recovery

...Why do evil exist why do people expose domestic violence victims to their abusers to cause harm shame to relive terrible pains I will never understand how we seek shelter hide like spies an yet there...

Building a Dream

...("Outside Looking In Merit Badge", 2011, original oil)

Building a Dream

My whole life I have been observing myself
Steadily, obsessively telling a story,
Sure, throughout the day, from...

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