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Viewing
For so long,when night fell,I’d leave my blankets disturbed,inviting my monsters to play,but it’s not anybody’s business.I’m not harmful,hurtful,even interesting,and yet,it becomes a public affair,published and preached about,when all I wanted was to wait and watch the sun rise.I am darling in my defensiveness.I am lonely but loved by the angel on my shoulder.She wears…
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Late Winter
It was spring,but winter’s woes still lingered,ghosts of Christmas past were running late,recoiling when I politely informed them that my lesson had been learned,and so,once again, in the freezing flurries of a greedy winter,I was alone. I’ve nothing to wonder about,but I wander with a busy mind.Clean hands, but a collapsing conscience.This is not my…
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Borrowed and Blue
I wrote the forward to the diary of a mad woman,foolishly finding her ramblings amusing,her scratched stanzas were a mirror and a memoir,and I kissed her on a cursed cruise ship,that only seemed to stop at my port when I needed it most. How can I live if I’ve nobody to die for? I don’t…
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Satellite
It had been too long,stuck in silent tunnels,dark nights that seemed to last for weekends,wandering in a dream that wasn’t mine. It had to end. I said it to myself so many times,softly, decisively, persuasively, pleadingly,playing myself by playing into the delusion that it’s all behind me, and I’ve been bathing in sunlight since I…
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Wonderful! Wonderful!
At last,a perfect fit,starlight flitting between dark caverns in the sky,until it is as bright as London on New Year’s Eve.Nightmares cry out, chased from my side as we drink in the soft, sentimental air.This is our world now,and I’m aware of how much it means to finally find meaning in the simple practice of…