Sometimes, it's better not to speak
Than to be judged for your words.
Excuse me for not believing in fairies,
I was raised by this dirt
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Tribes chanted of the heavens
Kings called out to themselves
Governments learned their lessons
Religion rules us all
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Did I ever rant about my Lucky Bamboo plant?
Lucky, of course, because it needs no land.
The world is scant, although a sycophant,
And this beauty needs not a hand.
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These wheels spin
To stares engulfing grins.
No one wants this thing;
The blatant rush drives patience thin.
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Our windows to the outside world
See all there is to be—
How many a man and woman fold
Their souls into inhumanity.
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Why are women Geisha?
No, not in a white mask,
But in their breath and past?
What a confusing behavior!
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I want to be free,
Lost in a sea of beauty,
Fleeing life's tragedy.
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Weathered wings doing wretched things
On my life, wringing everything.
I hear him breathe, as a disease,
Slowly consuming.
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Sometimes, I feel like a toy.
No, not a real boy.
Joy comes through me
Until I'm broken.
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You and I are never going to be the same.
People, like the seasons, change.
Could it be that treason's fame
Is through collective, not individual, gain?
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What I'd do for another whisper from that voice,
Pleading, bleeding, calling out for my choice.
Say' it'd been the wrong waist—a waste
Within horses of troy, chasing a pace
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My apologies to you, Rose,
For misunderstanding
Where we were to go
Or what would happen.
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We can run away from it as much as we want,
But the truth is always there,
Self-aware.
I have never loved myself enough to be alone
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There's nothing to know
There's nothing to hear
There's nothing to fear
There's nothing to feel
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Took my love through Hell;
She soaked in the flames—
Dispatch, she's ready.
Flee on a plane.
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Fiery dark opals light up the sky;
Only if we could grasp these minds
Around touch of sights, lick of limes,
Outstretched intimacies of our time,
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Listen to those sounds, her moans
Of pure orgasm—You know
There's not a way back by morning.
A cab will pick her up—a goner.
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Fine Beginnings
You can make it
We all can make it
It's in the seconds,
The minutes,
And our brains
If we kept going
It's all there
Everything you wanted
And these lessons
As in them, we rise above
Past the fires of our hells
We smile on, we march in rhythms
Of our own destinations, brimming
On the cusp of imagination, singing
To what's lost and discovered again:
A joy for joy, a hope for life
Because what feels like the ends of us
Are fine beginnings