Monthly archives: September, 2020

Drafty-Draft Poem

Running Out of Time Tik tok tik tok Time is running out Which will I choose? The path of uncertainty  Do I trust in fate Where I have no control? Or stay on my current path Where I live in fear Wondering “what if”? Tik tok tik tok  Which will I choose?

Free Poem

Lifeline Your heart is racing As you fight for your life. Watching in flashes Everything you’ve ever done. All of your choices, emotions and memories  The loves you’ve had and those you’ve lost Like a megaplex of screens Scanning through your life. You hear the beep get faster Like an alarm in your head. Do …

Feared Drowned Two(pg. 102)

Agony I woke up Tears dripping down my face I closed my eyes as tight as I could Squeezing my leg hopping it would be gone when I opened them back up again, But it wasn’t. It’s always there It’s become a part of me, Apart of whom I am. Some days worse than others, …

And what if I am a taker?(pg 62)

Defeated Bubbly, cheery and happy go lucky?   Not on my watch.   I am stronger than them. Your effervescence falls flat when I am around  I take over your emotions and affect you physically  I fill you with hatred and anxiety, Making you sick to your stomach. Replacing your baby blues With cold gray emptiness.    …

Secret Stash(pg. 28)

Handful of Dirt I look at the people around me, women and men stare back at me with sad eyes, filled with despair and disbelief.  I turn my head slowly in the other direction and see the familiar faces of my family.  I watch as people go by One by one, to throw a handful of …

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