trainwrecks

i'm dying inside
to see you tonight
but if lessons teach
the learned,
i'll take the
road less travelled...
packing has improved,
comparment-sized cares,
put safely away...
but this baggage
is still too heavy
for the high road
and if i attempt
the treck...

... i'm dead

winter by lamplight

glitter of
the freshly fallen.
roadside reflections
of a girl long
forgotten...
unfinished sleep
separated
by time.
ashes to dust,
heart set on fire
as the cold consumes
me

Enlightenment

i may have failed
at being the
new person
i tried to be

but you overstayed
your welcome
from the moment
you arrived

hungry.thirsty.marionette.

flickering dreams
within this
nightmare
what a time
to be untied
and tangled
in strings that
were never
attached
i swam for
so long only
to drown in
grapes of wrath...
fed the heart
with fuels of
lust
to suspend
these pangs
of loneliness

resolutions and reputations

finding comfort
in the rumours
that plague our
reputations...
comfort in a
skin
touched by many hands
indifference,
dishonesty,
hypocrisy,
casualties.
the dead will
be lost and
the strong
are the
heartless...
at this point,
i pray for
weakness

on one hand and on the other

pussyfoot
to my door
where
our eyes
meet to
discuss the
truth,
parting lips
to spread
the lies

beneath the
sheets we'll
conceal
our souls
and our
bodies talk
of indifference

blatant
departure with
regrets of
ever coming
at all

the years go by so fast

another year
has contested
and bears witness
to a new age,
a new era.
the end of a chapter
the inception of a novel...

piercings bear proof
that holes
can be filled
and hearts
can be mended...

renovations illustrate
that change
still awaits you
and still,
you grow..

tattoos as landmarks
to the borders
you’ve crossed.
a man
in the making,
remains a child
at heart...

so to my friend,
my brother,
to a similar soul;
you’re aging with time
but you’ll never get old.