Debt

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 […]

Unification Undone

I move much closer each time that I see The essence pure with greatness understood Perfection pumps throughout her veins, her blood Her strength continues to triumph over me It takes me captive then it sets me free To mix like water with dirt, we turn to mud Such joining forces two to bond in […]

Clouded Emotions

The power taken from my hands in pain, As I did lose my strength, my will, control, The wishes, dreams and past desires that came, To reason through the clouds and come to know. If ever sky could clear its blue again, Inside my head where strength of mind is weak The power giv’n to […]

Mud in the Gutter

I wrote this as a homework assignment in college sometime in either 1999 or 2000. I just stumbled across it. I’d thought I’d lost it. Not sure it is any good. The curb was muddy after the recent rain. Trash, half buried in the wet dirt, stuck out in the gutter. The rusty grate over […]