Final Bow

Notes about the poem: My uncle, Bill is sick with stage four lung cancer. It was incredibly hard to post…

Meaningful

It meant something then. We walked after 3 a.m. just to see what was it was like. Carrying nothing but…

My door knob shook, glass rattled, my windows. While mockingly silent snow fell outside, echoes of your yelling embedded into…

Beauty and disturbing destruction combined. This is life. Beauty and destruction combining to come through for the chosen, but the…

I keep having the same dream. It happens just before I’m to wake. I cannot comprehend why. I continue to…

It’s not the same this time, it’s stronger than before, beating away old habits that don’t usually break. Falling like…

The birds chirp merrily and the squirrels chatter. The sun is hot in the ocean blue sky and seeking to…

Bent over backwards, spine twisting and hair spilling over my eyes. Snapping and singing are all around me. The sun…

See more, run faster, dream bigger, love harder and NEVER give up. Your place in this world was set for…

The art I never perfected only made me better, stronger, and brought me closer to you. These very differences I…

Don’t stop growing and learning. Believe and watch all the things you believed bound you, fall away. You’re more free…

I couldn’t read between the lines. There was only a thin veil, and your expressionless stare, heavy lids. Blink once…

I held you in my hand. You were so small, fragile. We were brought back to winter. Snowflakes cascading from…

Mind is scattering, shuffling a multitude of bramble, mind-clutter. I’m falling down into the black again but how ? Why?…

She said there was an x on a path we often traveled. She spoke philosophical words with me. Meandering on…

I don’t look beyond the mountains, or set sail to seas unknown. Time passes and I just keep standing still…

Reaching in, I couldn’t move. I watched in pure terror. Long arms stretched forth and reached into my window. Coal…

Wide open sky propel me upwards and upwards until my feet dangle below me. Change my colors, make my skin…

Paint me lovely and speckled. Make me scented to match hillsides dawning in Heaven. Deliver me all across your universe…