She has come so far.
She has become a stronger woman than
She used to be.
But then certain people reappear
And she
Is gone before she realizes what has happened.
She becomes invisible.
So small.
Like she’s never been at all.
Jan30
Category Archives: poetry
Jan29
Come Closer
Come closer
Dear soul.
Let me warm your heart
For I feel you have caught a chill.
These days have been heavy
And you have not quite been yourself,
Wandering hopelessly without shelter.
Let us create shelter in kindness.
Let us resurrect hope in togetherness.
Jan26
Letters
She falters for words
(just keep breathing)
So she chooses instead
To pour her heart into
Paper and lead.
She saves her breath
(just keep breathing)
Slipping
Secrets
So delicately
Into the curves
Of each letter
She writes.
(hands steady she keeps breathing)
Jan25
Assume
You know so little
About certain
People
Places
Things
Yet you assume so
Much
Jan21
Another Wave
You hold yourself steady
As another wave rolls in.
Which is most frightening
When you feel it begin,
Knowing what lies between or what is at the end?
Invisible slips and invisible falls.
The faceless voices who taunt;
And from shadows
Call.
Going from gladness
(In deeper)
To sadness
(In deeper)
To madness
(In deeper)
To the darkness within.
The flesh feels alive and well
While the mind makes itself a home in
An unseen hell.
Jan18
Far Away
How is it that you can pull on my heart,
Stir me,
When you breathe so far away?
I think you left your dreams under my pillow.
I think you left your hands here for I feel them
Singing me to sleep.
I think your essence is in my bed
Still tangled in my sheets.
Jan15
As You Are
I will leave you as you are
If that’s what you like.
Or
I can return at sundown.
You can put your hand in mine
If that’s what you like.
And place your head on my shoulder.
The world goes on.
The noise continues outside
As warm smiles get colder.
But here there can be just you and I.
Heat from within
If that’s what you like.
Jan14
Stand Up
You have been here before;
Again you return.
You do not have to stay.
Your own self worth under your begging knees.
For love.
For love.
Stand up.
Jan12
Always
I cried for you
The tears you denied yourself.
Knowing what you had been through.
What you will endure.
Because I know the face you keep from the sun.
I know the heart you keep undone.
The face I have always loved.
The heart I have always loved.
Always.
Jan10
Lifetime
Those who have lived
More than one life
In this lifetime
Know that forgiveness is
True
Love.
Chole Into Diamonds 