The clouds scrape the sky Finger paintings from heaven A canvas stretched for miles Enveloping the Earth’s presence, So fortunate are we A beauty such as this So unpredictable The mystery behind its kiss, The sun glances in my direction In this chair that I sit My eyes barely open Forming a tiny vulnerable split, Its rays dance upon my skin Until the breeze pushes itself in And now a struggle of hot and cold My skin with no defense to hold, It’s this time of season When the butterflies take ...

We strive for purpose for meaning A story with an unknown ending, Your mind is eager to know the truth of you As your heart to burn in the moments you once knew, You’ve come along way some view as real far Made it over that hill, bumps and bruises and scars, You took something small and created an new world Any negativity you touched you quickly would hurl, Out into that ocean of things that are unseen With an impact into a sea of aquamarine, Calmly you walk the shoreline watching your impres...

You and your vicodin drip Me and my saline trip, Its a proverbial slide For an addicts ride, I tip toe into these words you lay out for me I lay them over my shoulders and wear them comfortably, They keep me warm in this sedated shell My thoughts remain closed off in this shadowed hell, Wrap me up in these pills you take And lay in this bed of pills you’ve made… Amanda

You have found your feet And you said, “They're on the ground" You have been wondering so long Searching for something profound, The sun broke that day That day that it peered from the distance Right off of the blinds in our room And pieces crumbled with persistence, Glitter floating in the air Like tiny feathers being swept away Your eyes bled that beautiful green The perfect combination that makes my head sway, You touched me and assured me That everything would be okay And I fell back into...

I take a cracker and I crumble it in my hand Tiny pieces fall, then violently land, I view in on a woman with painful disgrace Standing over what was her husband, now just an empty case, Her heart mourns for her lover the loss of her friend Now just a lonely survivor along with the others that suspend, Hanging they suspend with their hunger on a rope Doing everything possible to not lose that one thing called hope, I narrow in on a man trying to understand Tried to do everything to not let go...

You came to me by night With no locks upon your knees Faith in your heart With love as your disease, An infection you injected And it spread through its course Your philosophy was protected You stood by with no remorse, We have lived together Jumping hurdles and thrown into walls Bumps and bruises become our second skin Our words these desperate calls, And this space that started small Has grown to miles apart And this once filled hole Has been emptied from my heart, If you remember correctly...

As I sit here in this chair i am overwhelmed In my own bubble this sound proof realm, You were so young you know around that corner In that strange land of familiar faces to most a named foreigner, Down the road of years that have past And now currency hidden in this present has caught up with you at last, Some say justice will sow its seed And in you it will grow perfectly, No fighting no quarrels or struggles to show A stone cold face is what we will all now know, For this bar code has been...

What if every word became an empty container With nothing that filled the surface walls? What if every sound that you would speak Was just that - a sound slipping from your lips? What if what you saw was what you wrote on this page Just that of black and white Its nothing substantial nothing that contained meaning Just syllables that fluttered to the sky Caught by the gravity of avoidance, ignorance, oblivion And all you heard was the reverb from the stereo speakers Of all the negativity that...

Love a fable a story of old Yet love has so often left me cold, A feeling a fever can not fix An anxious feeling from a clock that ticks, We believe that love is all that there is Like the air that we breathe Once our eyes are set on this target We must do what we need to do to seize, This thing we call love, but what if it isn’t what we expect Yet something that is opposite of what love is supposed to be Instead of finding a partner that splits the responsibility You find one that is selfish...

torn paper rubberbands tie your knots with my hands i cant hold on much longer you want me so much stronger is this the capacity that i can reach is there no more that you can preach i am done with this repetitive past it seems to catch up to me finally at last i am face to face with this evil beast live at best they say take off my coat hang it at the door pull out the pockets and beg for more where have i gone where is my soul where is my heart when its something you stole you dont treasur...