August 25, 2018: Sometimes

Sometimes I wish I could walk away
Grab my coat, some mints, and a bag
Drag my feet along the sand of the coast
And Coast away

Sometimes I wish I could stay still
Wrapped up in blankets and popcorn
All my comforts sworn to silence
Silently sitting still

Sometimes I wish I could scream my way to the future
Take a camera and picture all my opportunity
Immunity to any disapproving whispers
Whispering away my future

Sometimes I wish I could walk, as I stay still, screaming.
But here I run, moving quietly along.
Should I go right.. Or wrong

August 25, 2018: Apple Crumble

Give it up
This apple crumble of timing
Take it apart
Piece by piece

Throw it at the ground, where nothing is safe and sound anymore
The floor isn’t the place to punch out your words

If you heard what it had to say back
You’d attack yourself instead

Get out of your head and stand back up
Fill your cup with kindness and stop fishing around
For safe and sound

This isn’t a head pounding kind of night
Your fight with furniture.. With mirror, with lights, with door

Is a sure way to get crushed in your rush to get out.
Give it up

Soup Bowl

Drowning in my alphagetti
Holding onto U to stay afloat
But I can’t keep close

Kicking my words away with the power of panic
There are so many Us and only one of me

I can’t see through the red abyss

It said this would be fun
It said I could make dinner into a game

Instead all I want is to run
But my feet can’t touch the bowl

My sole purpose has become this scramble up the wall

If only I were taller and this bowl somewhat smaller….

I wouldn’t be drowning in my alphagetti.

Break.

Break.

/stop/

She breaked hard on the surface of her skin.

Break.

/rest/

She needed a break from the sunburns that never rubbed in.

Break.

/collapse/

She could break so easily from the sunshine within.

Break.

/fracture/

Her bones would break if they were worn too thin.

Break.

October 31, 2016: Whole.

fire can warm

can enlighten

can motivate

 

but it can burn

 

it can reach out and wrap it’s hands around your heart

taking you flying through an obstacle course of rings to leap through

lava to avoid

coals to walk upon.. softly

carefully

 

IT BURNS

 

RUN

 

careful. careful.

careful.

breathe…in…out

 

in..out..

 

in.out.

inout

 

inut

 

int

 

it

 

 

I.

 

 

I don’t want to be I any more

 

I should be we.

 

I need to be we.

 

Can we be we?

 

We.

 

Woe.

Whoe.

 

Whole.