I’m a child I’m young and inexperienced I’m naive and guidable Easy to fool Easy to lie to For lies will always be truth to me I just want to be taken care of Someone to care...

A period marks the end of a sentence, the end of thought, “The End!” what a monstrous fate;   but that’s just it, one ending does not a conclusion make: it doesn’t mark...

Chilling, sterile, recycled air enveloping me like a thin blanket on a wintery night. Bright, cold, hospitalic hallway ... it It didn't seem this cold before. It wasn't this cold before. It...

I’ve never believed in my ability to climb the stairs. The ones I’ve always been warned to avoid,  the ones people have told me measure nothing of my worth,  but I can’t stop them from...

My friend, Kurt, and I cruise at 110 down a small stretch of our glorious nation’s  arteries, made fatty and cramped by the gluttonous years. My view is accented by  Kurt’s blood-curdling...

A rose is a rose Is a rose is a rose. A rose rose in defiance From cracks in the road,      A rose helped a man To charm his betrothed That one fateful evening On...

I honestly just hate you right now. I hate that you didn’t choose me.  I hate that it’s not me that you love more. And I hate that I’m mature enough to realize that it’s not you I hate.   I...

Remember when you were a postcard            promising better things and                            I swallowed you in distance                                screaming,...

how does one cope with the reality  that they’ll never be the person somebody chooses to love?   and i don’t mean your friends who you can’t believe you’re  lucky enough...

Why can’t I cry anymore?   I used to be able to.  I used to weep as I passed through The double-door threshold of Middle school, charging into waters Much better charted than those...

One night as I lay in bed, When the room was quiet but my mind was not A jarring reality hit me I’m getting older   Feeling distance tear away at the friendships That I left back...

  January 30th, 2021 I got a scrape today I fell right off my bike And tumbled to the pathway Of a thousand tiny knives   From canyons on my arm Flowed snaking tears of...