Whispers float in my ear and singAbout so many hurts and other thingsLies, truths, does it matter now A friend was all I wanted for meTo laugh with, to just beWas it too much to askTo hope it would last Stretched between twoStories, gossip, from both of youConfusion abounds in this placeI'm not a prize to win after a race I'm only me, mixed up and blueFor now, I've run out of glueBack to thoughts I had kickedBlood drips s...

She stood regally for fifty plus years I am told. The last 10 years on my watch. Guarding the front southwest corner of our garage. Towering a majestic 70 feet into the air with a drip line 20 feet in all directions from the trunk. Home to many of nature's creatures. Squirrels, birds, a hawk on occasion, and two different raccoons would climb her silently at night causing my motion sensor lights to emit.  A massive 63" ci...

What can I do to make you stay?Don't leave me alone on this awful day;I fight back the tears as they start to flow;'cause no matter what, you're still going to go;Alone once again and no way to share;the pain of my loss, the load which I bear;Lord, hold me close within your embrace,since nothing else fills this cold empty space;In my heart is an ache so very deep;each night I toss and turn, till at last ...restless sleep.

I noticed the hole today. It’s been there awhile; I just finally really saw it.It’s really deep! I dropped some rocks but never heard a sound, not even clatter off the sides.It’s pitch black; sort sucks up any light that tries to penetrate. Like a Black Hole. Just a big, black, sucking, empty, with harsh, jagged edges, Hole.It looks like a sink hole, no pushed up rim. No “Hand-Of-God” strike from above, just fell away int...

He loved Kayla in the way one loves a small child or an injured puppy. He loved her, not because she was the right girl for him, but because he was the right one for her. He loved her because she was magnetic with gossamer wings and because on Mondays she smelled like Chanel No. 5 and roses and he loved her because he was supposed to, which is really no kind of love at all. Perhaps, he even didn’t know this. It is unlikel...

I feel lostI ache insideIt's our anniversary FridayI was your brideSuch a wonderful dayI had a beautiful dressWe made our vowsHad our union blessedAfter so many yearsYou finally gotMe to agreeTo tie the knotMade me your wifeTwas a simple affairSo special to usWith our family thereTogether for almostHalf my lifeBut not even six yearsAs your wifeWe didn't get that longWe should have tried harderAt being togetherAnd a mother...

You sit there with your little boy smile,and play with her heart,thinking she will always be there. Tearing her in so many pieces,that she cries from the painthat rips through her heart. She had fire in her eyes,and a heart made of gold.She was kind and giving,warm and tender. You let her love you,only to make it a crime. Now she’s being punished,for nothing but loving you. So many would have given anything,to have her to...

The Copper Knight I Derren watched helplessly as his father grew worse every day, now no longer able to leave his bed, he lay there getting sicker and sicker. When he came home after work he went to bed without a word or food, just collapsed on top of the straw bed. He slept for two days straight and then when he woke he was weak and could hardly move about, let alone work.Soon enough their food storage ran out, the coin...

I don't have the words To say how I feel You are gone I don't have the words Nothing seems real It feels wrong I don't have the words It seems so surreal Like a song I don't have the words Death has no appeal Your life is gone I don't have the words The words that conceal All that feels wrong I don't have the words Wish they would reveal Just like a song I don't have the words Or know how to deal With you gone I don't hav...

It begins each morning at wakeThe endless battle of foesBoth sides press the will to win Casualties mount without regard.Victory claimed and lost simultaneously So many opportunities wasted Each warrior valiant Yet lay sullen in defeat.Blood flows from each new wound Scars from the past are empty reminders Yet each charge is continuously met Each side snuffing out hope.The infinite cost of the war on love Parts of a whole...

  It’s familiar now, this feeling: a heart squeezed by invisible hands, phantom fingernails tearing at flesh that pounds with desperation. Misery squashing lungs like a squeezebox, expelling breath in stuttering gasps. Tears, blurring vision, running in rivulets over stained cheeks and quivering lips. Silently screaming, I stretch the cords that bind us until, ripped apart, the tattered ends whip back. Walk away. Keep wal...

I want you to understand, that I don’t want to lose you, but I just can’t keep holding on to someone who doesn’t want to be held.I’ve given everything I’ve had to give. I’ve been patient and willing, Kind and giving.I’ve fought and I’ve forgiven. You have touched my heart like no one has ever. I wish I could explain that but I don’t understand it myself.I know that you care but I’ve noticed lately, by your words, your act...

55. The age of post-midlife crises and doctor visits. Backs cracking, heels tapping, salsa lessons with two left feet. Getting out of bed is a little harder, you slumber a little deeper. So many pills you can’t even count them. The age of watching children go into the world with your blessing. Raising little ones from tiny tots to full-fledged lawyers in grey suits. Favorite Chanel lipstick discontinued. Your baseball tea...

Why does it always have to beThat other she Instead of me?Or anyone reallyWhy's it gotta be sheShe is not niceShe is not meanShe is the pastOur future is unseenShe's not your Queen.You take the blameAt every false claimYou played the gameAnd changed your name And now you know It will never be the same.But you try.Why?You try, fail, cry, and I want to know why?I am making a stanceThat you let go And give the present, the f...

Fire sparks a candle bright Small it shines against the night Cheerfully dancing in sweet innocence Leaving it completely exposed and defenseless Soon wind and rain pressure it to fade Causing it to flicker, cold and afraid Ashes drop from the shortening wick Hot wax pools and falls thick Darkness surrounds the little white light Ready to swallow it into the night