The day I said goodbye to the man I once thought I could not live without The silver Georgia sky was dense With murky pregnant clouds And the fresh scent of an emergent rain Infused the air all around We sat only inches apart on the wrap-around porch Of the house we’d chosen with forever in mind, A place where we’d found that love was not kind And that sadly forever was not in our design No words were exchanged, only anxi...

"Forget"Forget about how I loved youAnd how I kissed youAnd how my eyes lit up whenYou walked into the roomForget about the long love letters that told youHow you were the best thing in my worldAnd the short sappy ones that said the sameForget about the hour long back scratches and massagesAnd how a whisper of a word, look or touch from me gave you goose bumpsForget about that.Please forget how I loved your children as my...

Her beauty represents us wellHer intellect does us proudSoft as a feather; yet strong as steelShe lives her life out loudHer bright future is our bright futureHer failures aren’t hers aloneWhen she feels pain we feel the sameAfter all she's one of our ownShe possesses a lifelong membership In the mightiest club in the worldPower was placed in the palm of her handThe day she was born a girlHer eyes sparkle with the light o...

I left on that midday plane to JacksonTwo overfilled suitcases and a dream of betterNothing in my belly but butterflies and beliefThat somehow a new landscape meant a new love for meRelocating for love?Sounded rather riskyOr downright desperateOr desperately dumbBut I was numbTo the life I had been livingAnd the tears I had been cryingAnd the lies I had been buyingSee, I had a vision of loveAnd it was tall, red, and sweet...

A haze of glowing warmness struggles To breach the seal that covers my eyes This sultry light is unnervingly bright And tugs at my lids; commanding them to rise Hastily I aim to assist the light’s endeavor By expanding the narrow slits with my hands But my shattered arms refuse to comply And remain still; defying my commands Defeated, I descend into myself Resisting the impulse to weep So, resigning myself to another day...

I stand at this window and I wait and watchAs the red sun sets and the temperature drops And my eyes won’t stray from this winding road On which my Love must travel home His journey has carried him a world away To a volatile land where I’ve never been A killing field with angry men And a merciless searing sun Living each day in deafening uncertainty He prays that each sunrise is not his last Paying a debt that he didn’t c...

Satisfied, he falls asleep Thoughts drifting into dreams Mad as Hell, I lie awake Struggling to bridle my screams Traces of my stolen DNA sheathe his most private places While bleeding cuts and purple bruises defile my most sacred spaces I gently nudge him but he doesn’t stir, so I connive a hasty retreat But flashbacks of an invariable scene fill my mind with familiar speech, “ You’ll die before I let you go!" He caution...

You crept into my house in the black of the night When my eyes were closed and my guard was down You came to my bed and whispered lies in my ear But I didn’t resist; your voice is soothing to ears that bleed You weren’t invited yet decided to stay Making a space for yourself at the foot of my bed You’d feed me half-truths and rub my belly until I fell asleep Then in the morning scold me for eating too much You kept me ins...

A ludicrously frigid breeze is barreling through this black and desolate space where my feet have grudgingly settled. There is no life in this place; none except me and the glacial gust, which is blowing in from each and every direction that exists, simultaneously. ‘What happened?’ I wonder aloud. Moments ago when I crossed over into the Realm of Dreams I had enjoyed a leisurely flight over Azure, the largest, deepest, bl...