Sweat oozed from my pores as I ran toward the barnSand spurs stung the bottoms of my fleeing feetAs I sprinted wildly toward Margie's southern farmI prayed my drunk daddy would do me no harm In the woods, I had played with dollies and climbed treesThe big three, one with a treehouse I had visited … Continue reading Climbing Trees
Category: Confusion
Making Eggs
Tied up, beat up, washcloth stuffed into her bruised mouthTwo legs and two arms tied to bedposts in a messy fashionMuffled screams came from their room quite a frightful sightHow was I to tell my mom a normal, love you, and good night Why didn’t he just shut the door and save me from this … Continue reading Making Eggs
Innocence Betrayed
Green eyes shot serpentine spears of betrayal tersely into mineBlinding me by your lack of love and all I once deemed kind. Once to share my unlocked heart until misery maimed my soul,Reclaiming your "forever after", with the razor tongue you stole. Untouched and pure was I inside for never had I loved before,You, my … Continue reading Innocence Betrayed
Once Treeless
Paralyzed by emotions, dismal visions haunt my eye’s memoryFaces in plates, probing hands of strangers, and the smell of pee.Fairy letters under wet pillow laid, hoping they will set me free. A veil of melancholy wraps me like a cocoon as dread is calling.Our neighbor plucks buckshot from the leg, her husband’s shot.The smell of … Continue reading Once Treeless
Slowly Cracking
Oh unholy time, save me from that which creepeth all too near,Enclose me not into a world, to wait in turn decay.For it is the sticky spiders' web, my untimely senses do fear.Upon a Lilly pad afloat I wish to lie, until another day.From all, and all from me, sharing only nature's sweetish kiss.Adorned butterflies … Continue reading Slowly Cracking
Mistaken Pleasures
Crimson cheeks and curled confusion, you wear upon your head,Satan's satin covers and putrid odors ornament your bed.Countless corners hold your breath and tremble at your power,So many times, your favor won, with the pardon from a flower. A tongue found bitter from your taste, and yet it won't recoil,Implanted in a weakling's eye, another … Continue reading Mistaken Pleasures
We Dance For Silence
Like a snake sheds his skin so go we, those of us who bravely venture onFilled with heightened senses as vigilantly, we quietly roam till dawn. Exposed our emotions on our shoulders perched like the raven black,Hearing whispers, feeling stares, why we grow eyes high upon our back. Lost amongst the others, those who gather, but wonder … Continue reading We Dance For Silence
Saved From the Water
Wet sand slowly sinking beneath my weight there is a mugginess to the air it accompanies the endless rays of searing sun so anxious of what powers lay beneath the mystery of the ocean’s layers never grasping how to swim, yet the gravity of the sea calls to me Chilly is the rough briny water … Continue reading Saved From the Water
Up-Side-Down World
Confusion, the perplexing reality which made no sense to me, Living trapped within its walls was not the place for youth to be. Vomiting, drinking, peeing in the closet, on shoes, my only pair, My mom running through the neighborhood naked in the night, News in the paper, now at school, where judging eyes would … Continue reading Up-Side-Down World
Twisted Shelter
Darkness is a mistress dressed in deep purples, blues and black, Thickened with fog, her cloak is tainted with the blood of innocents. She robs them of their voices as safety has surrendered all, To her steel, cold claws that cut and tear away all sense of self, Virtue and compassion now exist in the … Continue reading Twisted Shelter
