There they hang

Displayed for all

The artist experiments

Faces of fellow students

And, not faces

Proportion, off kilter

Reminds one of

              Van Gogh

              Picasso

              Dali

Heads and features separate

You stand in your world

And I stand in mine

Separated completely

By the dotted line

I watch you on your side

Loving you, feeling alone

I cannot turn to another

For I love you only

Wondering if you could love me

Being so different from you

As I see you pass on by

I can't figure out what to do

If opposites were meant to attract

Then you are my perfect mate

Yet we stand apart ...

I lay myself at you mercy

You through me to the ground

I placed you on a pedestal

It only came crashing down

I put my love out on the line

All you could do is take what is mine

I gave you my heart

You tore it to shreds

I gave you my affection

I saw returned not a thread

I cried enough tears to fill a pool

All you could do is make me the fool

I showed you my concern

You gave me no consideratio...

Rain falling

Lightly stepping

On the ground below

From the clouds

Reaching down

To touch the earth below

Calm storm

Posing no threat

Upon God’s creation

January 1987

Slipping away in the back of my mind,

Are the memories of you and the love we once had

Far away have you gone in your secret journeys

And I am left to grieve and wait in the morning sun

Its warmth does nothing for my unrest soul

As I try to recapture some of the happiness of past times

Do nothing to comfort my slow drying heart

Say nothing to take away the bitterness and pain

Try nothing to make me smile in this life

Write noth...

The sound of heartbreak fills the halls

It slowly drains my loving cup

Till not a drop is left for me

Slowly my heart bleeds for the past

When these walls held security within them

Certain were the emotions I held inside

Now my broken heart is all I can see

Time, the healer, is the only cure

As I piece my emotions together as one

Love dwells not anywhere in my body

Instead, it’s an empty, hollow shell

Where on...

When your days are empty

         And your loving cup drained

                            I will be here for you

                                ...

I look out my window

I see the bluebirds fly

Looking at the world below

I begin to wonder, “Why?”

Why do we fill the air with smog?

A gray pollution to hide the blue

Killing all the green plants

That collect the morning dew

Why do we cut down trees

That clean out all our air?

Leaving us to poison ourselves

Or do we really care?

Why do we product atom bombs

To blow us ...

Within my mind’s eye

I remember days gone by

A time to laugh, a time to cry

A time to live, a time to die

Within my body’s soul

I can feel the call

Bringing my out of my hole

Catching me when I fall

Within myself I see

My personality

Freeing myself with the key

Allowing myself to be

November 1985

Time elapses so slow

Now I sit and watch you go

It feels like a lifetime ago I met you

Now I sit watching you leave like you do

Too deep in sorrow

To run after you

Not looking for tomorrow

And all the heartache it brings

Hiding in the shell I created

Falling out of touch with life

Daring not to care this way again

Becoming a hollow structure of a person

The rain falls hard on the ground...

Could I make you love me

If I were someone else?

By rewinding the hands of time

To re-beautify myself

I love you madly

But, somehow, you don’t see

How fond I am of you

And what you mean to me

Now I’ll hide behind my other face

In this real life masquerade

And hope you fall for me

Somewhere along the charade

September 1986

I sit all alone

Watching all the little flowers dying

Why?

As the life leaves this delicate beauty

Something dies inside me

This planet holds little wonders

Mostly death and destruction present

Leaving nothing left

As little flower dies

Something dies inside me

All around is heartbreak

Broken affairs and lover’s lies

Passion without emotion

As death comes to little flower

Somethin...

What is

The definition of a child…

Is it how they came to be-

Biological?

Adopted?

Step?

Is it their height-

Tall?

Short?

Is it there species-

Human?

Furry?

Is it there gender-

Male?

Female?

They are all this

And more

Defined by

Unconditional love

August 2012

In the classroom

There sat a girl

Behind her

There sat a boy

The girl saw them as equals

The boy did not share that view

The day of the test results

Was upon them

The boy did well

The girl did better

The boy, enraged

Brought his textbook

Down upon her

The girl, shocked

Saw blackness, then

Briefly lost time

The boy felt injustice

As he should have

B...

They Say,

Those talking heads

On the television…

There is no war on women:

      “It’s lies!”

      “It’s the twisting of words!”

      “It’s your imagination!”

If all they say is true,

Then why don’t I believe them?

The redefining of rape…

Sho...

The foundation was of caring

Trusting held it together

With acres and acres of love

In the house I built for us

I placed it in the sunshine

Beautiful songs and sweet sounds

And stars from Heaven above

In the house I built for us

It’s rooms were filled with sweetness

To cherish for all out days

Each designed with tenderness

In the house I built for us

It’s basis was the sensa...

The skies opened up

As if to say

“No pleasant drive for you.

Let’s see you pass this trial.”

Water falling from

The heavens

Coming hard and heavy

Forming fluid walls

Outside the window it

Appears as if you’re underwater

There is light

Yet, no visibility

Choice: to stop and wait

Or continue on a wing and a prayer

Finally arrived

Pl...

I am the All-American Heard!

And I am looking down from Mt. Olympus

To let you all know

Now that I have existed in this world,

My voice will live on for all eternity-

It will never be silenced.

And it will haunt forever

All the oppressors

All the haters

For I am on the side of right

Because my message is of love.

And this makes them powerless

In their efforts to exorcize me

From the pages of history.

I ...

Night looms loneliness

over my barren bed. I am

lost in the books

languishing across the

bed. They are

my companion

through the endless

evenings while my

beloved drives

throughout the country.

My cat lays

beside me. She purrs

and coos. My confidante

through the solitary

twilight. My fluffy

child, filling in for those

who’ve grown up, moved on.

All of ...

Roses in the front yard…

Smoke from the BBQ in the backyard…

Seen through our youthful eyes,

It was never enough.

We would giggle at the potential,

As we sat on the couch and wondered,

That the Blues could lead to Hope.

As Grandpa’s car drove over the gravel

And hit every pot hole in the pavement.

The engine would hiss as it shut down

In the driveway, on the side of the house.

Then the Doo...