I tell my daughter
Love is caring about others
more than ourselves.
But when she leaves the

There is a list of things that I’ll never say,
Tucked away,
Far away. Where no one will ever

There just are some intricate pieces of my skin,
That bring me to loathe my flesh.
Some days I

I don’t want to write another song.
I may be bitter but my heart is in one piece
Except for the

I write of things unseen,
I twist the lies of the known.
I use the things that do exist
To tempt

What you see will astound you,
I’m sorry that I have a habit of
Repeating old used lines.
It just

When windows close and doors open,
Time stops and goes in circles.
Time wields fate while time

Thought is a process of elimination.
All men are created to think,
But not all men do.
We are a

Your luscious lips scare me
They smear me with lies
Sweet melodies of tempting hisses
To your

Rude awakening...

The night...over...

We sit before a Sunless day

The future we hid behind

It’s always in September
When my guilt begins to rise again,
And I contemplate where my life has

You would think I’d figured it out,
But I still don’t know what I want,
Or what I want to

I get this feeling,
When I am alone.
That the wind is softly speaking.
To my lonely ears.
It

(For Chris Booth)

A pressed down
Heat exhausted stagger
Through furnace-fierce oppression.

I watched from afar,
As you were torn apart.
You stood your ground,
But then folded like a

What is real
Or imagined?
Fears whether well placed
Or imagined
Become rooted
In truth.

Longing for love
Is common of
The human condition
And we were made
To experience love.

We

I pray
These sober thoughts
Stay strong.
For I am afraid
Of falling further.

I pray

I've gotten so tired
From running.
Constantly running
Denying the work
In my life.
Too proud to

I've felt so lost
So hopeless.
In the dark
And out of control.
Even though
I've made my

Do I do
What I do
For the lamb?

Or do I
Look out
For love from man?

Do these

I’m not sure
Of the choices I will make
And the reasons why
I’ll make them.
I’ve confused my own

Sometimes I feel like a monster,
Staring in a mirror.
Three faces gazing back at me
And I don't

Please give me wisdom,
to understand my man :
grant me enough love,
to forgive philandering ,

I thought I never see the day when I'm afraid to walk outside my own house
Can you imagine 6

Under fed and over grown
It threw me against the wall
He is twice the size
And I am half as

Footsteps on dry autumn leaves approaching,
Frozen, can't move, can't see a thing in

let me go quickly
let me fall fast
fly

because I'm not afraid
of the dark
and I'm not

To the great writers of my soul
I write to you in doubt
I write to you searching
Burning for the

the endless slumber
when nothing seems
so deep
as a moment
that's encumbered
by my

Love is an ocean, while I seek high ground,
Holding a shell to my ear to hear the sound-
Of your

I clearly remember the last
conversation we had
before you honeyed me to death.

I recall you

Memorization fits seat pants, ache in back,
tandem bike of thoughts entwined with yours,
skipping

1.
Sweet Alahsar thy golden crowns
Adorned the sky of verdant blue
Sweet land of dream

tonight i nearly did it,
tonight i nearly ran,
into the car,
and end my lifespan,

i am a

You think we live in fear
But we live in hope
That one day you will be no more
And won't be on

I can only quiver,
Seeing in the night
Intruding shapes that haunt my dreams,
Spirits taking

The Waiting Game,
waiting on something that never came.
On and on,
Time denies that golden

For nine months in warm sweet world
I float there peacefully
Then cast into that birth canal
It

I'm done giving ya looks
And writing songs
That sink into your skin like hooks
And pull us

I don't think I get it
I don't think I'll get it
I don't think I have
What it takes
To shake my

Every love seems to burn
Every life does the same
As they both go up in flames
Is there anything

A Thirst for Blood.

I feel
shot after shot
pierce my heart

I choose
not to eat meat

a

I'm too old for fairy tales
when every day a new story
fails.

I'm done with all these

I find myself hanging around the computer
like a Catholic at confessional.
I find myself bowing my

Calm down kid
Stop and stare
I'm sure you know.
Life is scary
I know you feel
Like you're goin

Everything is within walking distance
if you just take the time
to move past the distance
and the

You sat at one end of the couch, I on the other,
as we peered into that electronic, flat-screen