“Warn me”You wrote before is was born, these pages of my life. Each of the victories, and the strife. You knew of my wants and each loss, And my needs. Couldn’t you have warned me, Some actions, would cause me bleed. Each page you filled with paths I’d choose. Callouses I’d form, friends I’d lose. […]

It’s only cold if you are standing still.So run with me against winters chill. Don’t listen to night’s whispering winds.  If you stop for them, I might lose you friend. It’s only cold if you are standing still. See this here, breath from my lips, the cold is real. Hold my hand, move, while my […]

Once before I knew what I wanted to do.When skies filled with marvelous winged things. Where tree branches bent like bows carrying invisible arrows. To walk the surface of untrod worlds and see home from beyond the horizon. Yesterday filled with all my tomorrows till they became today. Failures and fixes, burst dreams in realities […]

Hearing the echo of each shot, feeling nothing but the sound.Here, lying on this damp ground, praying hates bullets will not in me be found. Hoping faith continues to hide me from evils assaults, blood my life already bought. Hobbled by sins repeated beating against my heart, kneeling, prayers start. Holding onto this scream, as […]

Just before sleep claims another, I listen for the footsteps of my mother.Dreams filter between the prayers and praise, leaving me longing for day. Each lid now pressed bringing temporary rest, as my inner sight takes flight. Skipping across methane pools on worlds filled with jewels, beating beasts with bare hands. Traumatized in a waking […]

I must write of my dream before day captures my imagination and takes each vivid scene.For a reason still unclear, I am quite far from here. With another’s family in tow, driving across old beaten roads. Children and their mother in the sad and back, a man I seem to know driving, fearful of attack. […]