D. T. R.

Scared Confused It’s so hard to understand Closeness Distance Only one can have increase Helpless Waiting It is a decision I cannot make Scared Confused It is only my happiness at stake J. Abram Barneck. Copyright © 2002 by Rhyous, Inc.  All rights reserved. Revised: 13 Mar 2003 15:01:22 -0700.

At what I marvel

Though the knowledge of technology fills my mind, I often have thoughts of a simpler kind. Despite computers, electronics and skyscraping towers, I more often marvel at butterflies and flowers. J. Abram Barneck. Copyright © 2001 by Rhyous, Inc.  All rights reserved. Revised: 19 Mar 2001 15:01:22 -0700.

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 […]