Poem: Compliments
Compliments are bouncing off, Compliments, unheard, Compliments that shake our mind and threaten our whole world. Because we cannot see ourselves, Because we cannot laugh, We never hear our compliments; We discard them like chaff. But one...
Poem: Slippery Crying
Wires and tightropes and catches oh my, my heart can't withstand the pain; Wires and tightropes and things I despise, my mind can't withstand the rain. Of intrusive thoughts, of intrusive acts my mind will always toward-slip. And yet, even...
Poem: For Dakota
I love it when your smiles are real. I love it when they're true. I love it when they radiate, like light shines down on you. I loved them then; I love them now; I love them all the same, as long as they are genuine and not damaged and...
Life, Love, and Happiness
"Love." "Love? What's that?" "You've got to be joking." I said, as I side-eyed the walking lizard, eyebrow quirking ever-higher as this conversation progressed. "Love is why we even bother to exist." I said. "It's why we fight, and win, even...
Bloodstains
The rage within that I now feel compels me now to write, to share a vision, bloody red, of your last desperate night. The rage within that rises strong that rips throughout my heart, it sings the song of pain and weight and rips my mind apart....
Breaking Through
And on this day, she 'gan to move. And on this day, earth trembled. For on this day, both earth and sky, And stars, themselves, remembered. For music spoke, And music sang, And music doth remembered, That secret song, That secret heart, That...
Shimmerspark
We enter times of darkness now, the wounded and the shaken, the times that would us now destroy, if we should not awaken. But still I hear dear freedom's call. I hear its march and chime and if you now just listen close you'll see it still yet...
The Torch is Lit
The torch is lit the gauntlet thrown the steel glints in darkness and now it comes to us at last to defend 'gainst this harshness. The trumpet blasts, the arrows fall, but we will not be shaken for within us dragons' blood flows, "These...
Does it really matter?
Yes it really matters. Yes, it hurts inside. Yes, to all the fees and care to heal my broken mind. Yes, to doctor's visits. Yes, to DMV. Yes, to lines unending, so at last I can be. Yes, I say, or tell myself, the one who hurts inside,...
Yours
Pitter patter, drip and drop Can you see them? Can you not? See them spatter, see them fall. See them sprayed upon the wall. See those that your knives have cut. See their hearts and ripped out guts. See them fall beneath your sword, all of...
Defeat is not Surrender
Defeat is not surrender, nor is darkness light. Though pain may overwhelm us it cannot stop our bright. Defeat is not surrender, nor is the battle lost. Defeat is not surrender, though we have paid great cost. For in our hearts a forest...
Shield of the West
Magics, magics, come to me. Come and stop this dark. You are needed now, now \*here\* to shield and heal the heart. Come and shimmer 'long bows of glass, through deep stone entomb-ed vaults, come shimmer strong and shine with light, and this...