I’ve walked the straight less traveled life Yet I fell for crooked, zigzag, broken ‘stumbles’ Who come with broken selfs and deep cracks Complex hurting pasts, they want to forget Well, I maybe the glue that fixes Or a balm…
You tell her she’s beautiful, She laughs and asks you how When there’s a crack on her tooth, A crease by her cheeks No dimple by the side, Her slightly too big nose And how her hair takes years to…
The die is cast, And just as the ships, bridges are burnt You can only swim you can’t drown You need to take your crown. Say your prayers and plunge Trust the bone in your marrow It might fail, but…
I marvel at the pieces of me left behind. With people I met shortly or for years Like a cake I let them taste the sweetness perhaps make lemonade with the sour Some I may not recall much but they…
When your bus finally arrives And you are no longer at the bus stop When those ‘ I’m happy for you texts’ you kept saying to others, are now coming to you. When we will be celebrating your victories. And…
Beneath those dark shades And a fake wide smile Is a real you Crying to be freed From standards and expectations Those you learned and copied Crying for you to realize you can create You don’t have to always trod…
Some are very long They can’t be independent They keep stealing from the day Replaying it’s activities Even through to dreamland Especially the ones you want to forget a bad boss and a boring friend Somehow you manage some sleep…
I get to the house and drop my bag. I’m almost shouting ‘ honey I’m home’ But I know nobody is home. I’m not even dating, Let alone being married. I try to get alive with my country music, Coincidentally…
There’s no poetic rhyme for this. It might never be a sweet song, Just that time allows us to heal, have fond memories of those dear Time allows us to even talk about them in the past tense. And laugh,…
https://wp.me/s93V0l-applause Best piece I read on a birthday