You
Standing there so full of words.
Me
Standing here so
Empty.
Mar8
Tag Archives: words
Nov11
Raw And Gritty
Raw and gritty.
Poetic and pretty.
We choose our savior
Or poison
And hemorrhage ink.
Black and white.
Flat.
Words a medium through which
We express
Love,
Life,
Hope
And loss.
Alone,
Until they are shared in perfect sequence.
Our secrets no longer our own.
Emotions that have not a singular name;
There we find we are the same.
Oct26
Eye Level With The Dirt
It
Wasn’t one big fall.
It was gradual.
A slight slip here.
A trip there.
Hands missing the railing,
Reaching and flailing.
Words left
Unattended,
Frightened inside.
Smiles left unshared.
Passing by averting eyes.
Little by little.
Skirting around the edges of hurt.
Vulnerabilities slowly
Caged and protected.
Until you found yourself
Eye
Level
With the
Dirt.
Sep7
No Good
I
Place my feet on the floor.
One step at a time,
I make it to the door.
The ghosts in my mind try to tell me
It’s no good.
I’m no good.
Back to square one.
Wonder what I would have done
Differently.
But it’s no good.
I’m no good.
I have never thought
I was any good.
I got so far.
I got so close.
How was I to know
Those words you spoke out loud
Would leave me trampled
In the crowd
Of
Ghosts
In my mind.
In my bed.
They are punishing me in my head.
And now I am trying to remember what it is you told
Me
I
Had done that made
Me
This way.
No good.
Apr20
Thorny Words
Hold your words quietly,
Peacefully
In your mouth
Before
Putting breath
Into them.
It is better to let
The thorny ones
Dissolve on your
Tongue,
In silence.
No matter how painful it may seem for you
To contain them.
Thorny words grow into uncontrollable Monsters once released
Wreaking havoc on hearts and souls.
Poking holes in hope.
Creating stones and
Destroying peace.
Weigh your words wisely.
Apr8
Unspoken
They are hanging in the air that
Surrounds us.
Swirling and twirling
Tangled and mangled.
Falling into each other.
Bouncing off the walls.
Crashing through
The windows
The floors
Clamoring in our brains
In our hearts
Where they internally combust.
We leave a trail of heartprints
In the ash of their remains.
In the dust.
In their broken madness.
Those
Words
Left
Unspoken.
Feb10
Spoken
I scribble it all on paper.
Sometimes in such a desperate
Frenzy
I cannot decipher it later.
At stop lights.
In bed.
At the movies in the dark.
A voice memo at the park.
At 3 o’clock in the morning
All these thoughts in my mind
Colliding in time.
Delving into
Emotions I don’t always get.
But I know I’m not the only one
On this planet
With nonstop
Voices in my head.
The few lines I have been brave enough to
Read
Aloud;
I have to stop and catch my breathe
To put life into the words.
The first time I
Hear them spoken
The fractured portions of me,
The passion and the fears
Through life and
Through the years
Stir the tears and they
Begin to flow.
For even I myself do not
Recognize
How deep these feelings
Move without restraint.
And the words uttered
With emotion
Sear the ragged edges
Of my heart.
Dec18
Tear
Reach in and tear out my guts.
Spew the depths of me onto the page.
I am bleeding
Past and present hurts,
Dreams
And joys.
All into
Mere
Words.
Chole Into Diamonds 