Pretend

You are who

   you pretend to be, so…

You’d better pretend to be

   something you can live with.

Flurries

Worries, like
Flurries, settle
Down the broad
Corridors of
Our lives.

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Words

Words of might
Like shades of night
Make the world a slight
Shade of non-hue.

Smooth

Life is a smooth,
A way to move.
The windows change the show
Of the people seen below.

Loneliness

I feel loneliness in your shadow
And the absence of want in your voice.
Your love has become a mausoleum
And your passion the chill in its walls.

How

How

Can true Evil

Destroy itself,

When we

Were never programmed

That way?

Stolen

Strip me down

to hear the wind

issue from my cracks.

See the light that

leaks its way

down spine and broken back.

Listen to the leery sound

of the cinders in my soul;

seal its cracks, cage the light,

and return the Life you stole.

Starlight

I looked out at night
Beyond the light
And was finally granted
The truth to see.
The stars above,
In all their view
Shine for me
Because of You.

Smile

She had a smile that glowed like the moon over barbed wire; a beauty lacerated with the promise of pain.

Some days, I forget how to breathe.

Life, in the normal.  Life in-Life out, all in a series of breaths.

But, sometimes I look within, forgetting how I repeatedly tell myself not to, and for just a moment observe the natural processes of my breathing, which then falters, stops, and starts anew, although erratically so.

When observing myself, I forget how to breathe.

And, until I Forget that I’ve forgotten how to breathe, I won’t revert to normal again.

Somedays, I forget how to breathe.  And then, I remember.