hopes

these hopes are delusionsthose dreams are only visible in the lightideas flowing, no net to containthe vision is there, but purpose is out of sightstay in my lanedo as i’m toldam i insane?maintain pattern in holddecisions questionedrationale undecipheredthe wrong choice is destinedto forever be preferredi open my mouthwrongi don’t say a wordwrongall i have is […]

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgivingto one, to allgot busy just livingfear i dropped the ballonce my favorite holidaythe matriarchs were the gluefeels like just another daytext “Happy Thanksgiving and miss you”is the new norm for all my loved onesi’m trying, please know thati send all my love, not just somei’ll sit here with my catsgrateful for all the […]

archaic and lame

is anyone really alright?is anyone really ok?why do i fight? stay the course, right?this consciousness enlightens existential dread blackensmy horizon with a creeping duskthat’s never truly endsi am no sainti’m the sinniest sinneri know what i’ve doneso i know what’s for give oncorrect the lesson planif it takes a village…yet we are all under the […]

undone (not the sweater song)

say one waythen feel differenti didn’t swayi didn’t shiftit feels liketwomake plans swiftas i can doby the time has comei have become undone

no soliciting

i’d like to say i carebut i don’tid like to say i trybut i won’ti’d like to say i know whybut i don’tand that’s just the way it isuntil the day i dopeople tell me to changeto be happybut they don’t seemthat way to melike a salesman at the doorlistening, blank stare, what a bore

thoughts and prayers

i’ve lied i’ve cheated i’ve stolebut most of life is learningso please don’t do what you’re toldi’ve done no more than the next man i betbut some you don’t want to knowbut I don’t think i’ve killed anybody…yeti’ve got friends that got me out of a bindin my youth i committed all my crimesi am […]

chauvinistic for $500

no one makes me more happyno one pisses me off morethan my wife and my kidsbut all i adorei got something that money can’t buyexperiences i can take anywhere i liefortune and fame don’t mean shit to methe price is too steep, an egos demisei doze off silently, yet snore when i sleepthis love, this […]

You

flaky people beside methe horny suffocate at the thought or sight of sexywalking faclessin the multitudeof the tastelesswalkers with attitudebehind mei wanna runeyes stab mei wanna runand get awayi see another dayno clarity, no missionblurry vision of frosted glasspeople pass, i can’t seebehind the curtain (repeat)i feel fineout and about?feeling of a different kindWhy are […]

a life lived

details are lost, but experience gainedblurry vision, while point of view extendsblackened bruise only skin deepunderneath the flesh, a pure soul remainsas hearing fades, listening bloomsas subtle palettes run drya sweet or bitter perfume that is encasedthe notes of honey or the hint of hopsthat appear in the agedfor perhaps it dependson the purity of […]