D. T. R.

If ever the woman in your heart Compares you to a dinner dish Make sure you’re everything on the plate, Else your relationship is less than you wish At minimum the main dish Should be to what you are compared ; Like the meat–be it beef, chicken, or fish; Else your relationship is less than […]

Wings outstretched No way to fly away The blue sky and clouds Hidden and unseen Nor room to fly Or even flap my wings Energy thriving Pulsing through my veins Useless, unneeded Draining away To soar once more To fly with grace Held down by my choices Made in life Oh, to escape To have […]

Troubling anxiousness floods the mind Running down through the spine like water In the underground mountain tunnels Always moving never stopping Seeping continuously, down through the nerves Throughout the body to pressurize fingertips, As it stops, capped off with nowhere to go Tension increases with each eternal tic Then to wait once more drives knifes […]