Poetry

Reinvention

I gave you vital parts of me Even though you never earned them I'm tearing out my need to please Locked into loving reinvention

Poetry

Paralyze

My blood boils. Are you in a bad mood? Why so serious? Spite stomps its hooves. The line between your business and my feeling blurs I want to let truth fall and scatter as it will But history holds a portent, Makes me physically ill. Of all the languages you

Poetry

Secret Garden

I search for instructions on how to garden The pictures are filled with manicured lawns Soft grass in meadows bursting with flowers in place of my dried brambles and thorns Dandelion seeds longing to scatter Sheltered by the willow tree A sea of white blinds my kaleidoscope colors Hedges keep

Poetry

Friend

I feel like a kid again Walking beside you Dappled light filters through your obstacles You're no stranger to pain Struggles unseen Fanning their flames when you could have been mean In choosing to be better there's no slate to wipe clean By switching the order

Poetry

Nip

I am not my gender I am not my sexuality I am not my school I am not my family I am not my lover I am not my ideals I am not my job I am not my ordeals I am not my choices I am not my contributions

Writing

I really want to share what I wrote

Why do I feel like I can't? There's this pressure to understand it before I send it to anyone. New creations still make me feel kinda shaky, does that ever stop? What did I write? It's a stream of consciousness. It took almost 15

Poetry

Parasite

Black spindly legs Barbed wire hugging my insides Wrap me in bubbles Giving season awaits A moment of violence Branches of blackened ash Circular patterns on my mind Comfortably vicious Endless resistance Maybe I had to break A scarred lesson Reminding me to bend

Poetry

Take a Step

I release the weight of alien expectations Take a step forward unaware of presentation Wondering if the ground and I will meet before the ocean Lonely guarantees in the certainty of motion Truth falls easily from chapped lips Droplets of Schrödinger’s poison A reinforced dam with a sturdy gate

Poetry

Cobwebs

Spindly spider fingers dig into my flesh Invisible wire wraps round I force my self to bend If it's mine, why is it your shame I don? Coiling around me in venomous tendrils My dress was not a come-on Guilt you sowed in my chest I now uproot

Poetry

A bird with a broken wing

I want to write a poem for you But you don’t really let people in So I can only write for the father I’ve had Not the one you wish you had been Deep beneath the skin of a man little boy cries frozen in time For a

Poetry

Never Heard

While you were frozen solid I was falling on my face When I offered you a hand My progress was displaced In the face of your suffering I prefer to walk alone Rather than cut off pieces Trying to keep you whole All the darkness I witnessed Contrasted by beams

Poetry

Sunshine

Brown eyes brighter than the sun I saw the world through yours before I ever grew my own Strong hands forged in fire and stone You stood stalwart between my light and the unknown Sour words that stung in my youth Turned bitter after half a decade apart Lemonade sweetened