Poetry

  • What I Used to Do

    I took the same drive I have taken many times before. Up along the winding mountain roads. To my favorite little olive grove.  Oh how I wish I could move again… I climbed these hills many times. I walked my stride along its ridges and lines. Not knowing then, I wouldn’t ever be walking them… Continue reading

  • Who Am I?

    Who is it that I am, but a twinkle in the sand? What am I searching for, that I have not already found? An identity that’s puppeteered? Carved by scoffing looks? molded by phony aspirations? Welded by my tears? Dreams other people lived out on my own behalf when they thought they’d seen something in… Continue reading

  • Let Me Be A Mystery

    My actions are just a mystery if you’ve learned anything from history. You ask questions not to know me, but only to pry. You ask me how I am, while not really wanting to know why. Your two-faced “compassion” reads to me like a lie. I am so sick of explaining to you Everything that… Continue reading

  • The Beam of Light

    I was a beam of light that cut through the blackness. I was a beam of light that cowered your darkness. Lit like a lighthouse, I stood on a hill, protected by the grace of a shallow cove, a fortress that only you could know. If you only knew where to look, which way to… Continue reading