Dangerous minds expressed,
curbs of dreams suppressed
on streets of criminality where a child’s eyes
reflect the fatality of poverty’s disguise.
But,...
For some, the ways of the world keeps us grounded,
rounded and content with our surroundings
and for others, the ways of the world takes us places
and introduces...
Dear Him,
I once saw you standing on the corner once before/hidden
in the mirrors of self-blame and masked by feelings of shame.
You thought no one knew...
She knew that change would come like the blowing winds of life,
but only time could provide the answer to her fate.
Whereas addiction took hold of her (unrecognizable...
If they could just see me now/standing here
taller than they ever thought I could stand/believing in myself
despite all those frozen years they laughed at me
like...
I am standing here watching words drizzle on the granite sidewalks
of time/ they are endless emotions cascading on smooth marbled plateaus
of thought. The sensory...
I wouldn’t say I am one for sitting on bar stools
in empty dirty bars studying time, but here I am/
all alone/ staring out a stainless glass window
watching...
There are times I walk through pouring rain
with no umbrella to shield me from all that grieves the pain.
The world watches me as I tremble through muddied
cemented...
