This is the second attempt on a collaboration I participated in on Anxiety / Release. This one didn't make the cut, but I am posting all the poems I wrote as part of the journey. It was dark times in my head as I wrote this, and travelled the path to the final piece. I hope you enjoy this, or at the very least, appreciate the emotion and passion that went into it. Feelings persist, gnawing at my core, burrowing inch by bl...

I wrote this piece as the first effort in a collaboration between myself and an artist. The theme was Anxiety / Release. They said I was wrong in the head, a case study for the shrinks. Neurotic, psychotic... and a few other - otics and - olics. Uniqueness allows me to stand out, drawing attention by my lack of animation, but they call it a case. Although I try to live normally, quiet pressure builds from outside and my s...

I went for a walk by myself. I got lost in my thoughts and on the streets. I had no idea where I was. You were with me in my mind, beside me supporting my every misguided step. It was your steady hand that stopped me from stepping off the precipice, a fall that I may not have endured. Alone I wandered, with you by my side. We talked and laughed somewhere in my head it all made sense. I bumped into light post as I gazed in...