Love is like the wind, you once told me, your voice a soft caress carrying secrets on dawn's breath. We danced in its embrace, two leaves caught in a breeze, spinning together, our touch light as air, yet deep as the sky's expanse, like the passing wind, brief, yet deeply felt. Your eyes held the horizon, vast and open, and I, a wanderer, lost in their dark infinity, drifted on the promise of forever whispered by the wind...

I thought you were the one. The one who would love me And take care of my heart. Love denied once again. I still feel the pain, hurt, and suffering From past and present relationships. Where time and time and time again I exposed my mind, my heart, my soul… Only to feel the cold steel dagger From an unaffectionate lover, that wears a façade Laced with poison dreams and romance That is meant to kill the rose before it bloo...

Frank Baldwin stared out the window of his office. The lights of downtown Eversham shone before him. Usually, the mayor smiled when he looked out at those lights. A lifelong resident who had been the city’s mayor for twelve years, Frank was pleased and proud with the work he had done to improve the city. Tonight, though, he gazed out at them and sighed. It was looking like twelve years was enough for the citizens of Evers...

The caravan made it to the last oasis before finally getting home.The trip by all accounts had been successful. After the camels had been bedded down and the men had finished their evening meal of mutton and couscous, they began to talk of finally making it home and what they expected from their homecomings.The graphic details were too much for the old man. He had lost his wife and sole mate last year and he had no stomac...

My trembling fingers flutterAround the pulse inside my neckI check for signs of lifeNow that my promised life has leftMy hands across my mouthI hold the screams down deepYet sometimes one leaks outIn tracks of tears across my cheekThe emptiness grows largerThe cavern hits new lowsThe deep grinds bones to dustMy fragile heart implodesIn platitudes and 'somedays'In 'just be strong for nows'The 'wait a little longers'Infuse...

"I love you," she said"Forever and always and a day"But she meant that for another insteadI was so easy to betray.She took all of my hopesAnd played with all of my dreamsI was sliding down her slippery slopeJust a pawn in all of her schemes.It wasn't done in anger or spiteHer heart just belonged to anotherWhen discovered she was so contriteBetween my love and his, she still chose the other.She told me of her love for meI...

"Mmmoooooob"Every sixteen secondsEven with the patio door barely cracked openThe subconscious countdown of moments."Mmmoooooob"Feet entwined in the darkened roomLaying silently in spoon fashionNeither awake nor asleep."Mmmoooooob"Their annual tripA hotel on the coastEnding sad and silent."Mmmoooooob"Somewhere in the distanceA seagull screechedCalling to its mate."Mmmoooooob"Over and over the foghorn calledA knell cast at...

Random acts of dialogue.Dialogue in any book is great storytelling. Right after the hook to reel the reader in, dialogue is the mover and shaker of any novel.Dickens might have argued that narration and flowery descriptions were the backbone. However, I beg to differ with him.I thought of this scene where two former lovers meet again after 30 years.Setting: a seedy bar in the downtown area of Toronto. Characters: Stephen...

It was his birthday, but not even the sunshine of a beautiful day could cheer Pete up. Thirty-three years old and still single, he was re-evaluating his life choices and mourning opportunities that he had sadly let slip by. Of all his failures, he knew that nothing was worse than losing his high school sweetheart. She was tall and slim, a delicate beauty with blue eyes, brown hair and a smile that would melt even the cold...

I wish it could be different, I wish there was another way, If only for the sake of your children, I would have liked to stay. I came into your life a few years back, When you were looking for a man, I’ve tried to help anyway I could, But I’ve done all that I can. Your kids took to me from the start, And they always called me ‘Dad.’ You even told me more than once, That I was the best they ever had. But you just used me f...

The harsh cry of the alarm ringing in my earsI rise through currents of uneasy slumber.Pushing through sheets tossed in restless wavesTo drag myself from the empty ocean of my bedOnto the bleak shore of the lonely day.Move on.Cold tiles underfoot, I reach the shower...Visions of glowing skin through steam,Hungry lips and fingers in the wet heat.Soaped bodies locked in sinuous passionSliding together to a lathered crescend...

I tell myself it's good to let goBut I know I'm fooling myselfRemembering the pain of a love gone wrongTrying to move forward day by dayAs I close my eyes I see the one I once lovedTrying to start a new daySo I look deep into myself Gathering the strength I need I start to put the pain behind meStruggling to start something newI look to my friends for their supportLending me an ear, a hug, or a shoulderEveryday being a ne...

Remembering how we're friends For over a year I stood by your side Supported, cared and helped you As much as I could, Through all the good times and bad. Then I met a guy Someone you didn’t knowSo you decided,That the right thing for you to do Was flirt and meet him in secret. The flirting was nothing new. People warned me to watch my back Keep an eye on you.But I thought I knew you better. So, I brushed aside their warn...

His love has been shown With hurried kisses Balled up fists, Illicit cross town visits Forty years of foolishness, stark regret on both sides, bruises and black eyes and futile halfhearted tries It has taken its toll and I am far too old, To wait for things to change. . . The whole damn town has laughed at me from the moment I said “I do!”, I’ve been long considered a fool For taking the shit he puts me through He is the...

Paper Cut ... Bleeding Heart  it burns it stings it bleeds as a heart its burns its stings its bleeds all you can wish is for the burns stops the sting stops the bleeding stops