2018
I leave you lighter pieces of me will stay with youstress and pain, stomach and lunganxieties of tomorrows and panics over yesterdays
You acted as a spotlightI had to adjust my course and avoid the cliffsMade clear…
I am a fan of RnB. The way it forces you to move, Like Nina Simone telling me,that yesI am feeling good.
It’s us in a hotel, grabbing your hips and making you dance with me,they are quite the temptationand there ain’t…
I am privileged. I am a white, cis, straight, male. My skin color will never get me killed Getting pulled over is never life or death A coworker won’t think I slept my way to the top. I am entitled
A coal echoing
flame, A faint glow.
That coal. dead.
dreams of diamond.
In ash
for another flame.
I am proud to be a millennial You call us Narcissistic, anti-social, impatient, lazy, snowflake destroyers of restaurant chains, and the diamond industry.
My Good and Faithful Servant
“Where am I?” George Patterson woke up on the side of a street, head pounding and body feeling like he had been hit by a truck. He sat up shaking his head, hoping his memory would come back. As he became more aware of his surroundings he saw a the aftermath of a car wreck behind him. An old…
“You act as if you are in a grand-masquerade”. I was a senior in high school when my father said these words to me. He was right. I am a very different person at school, then I am at home, then I am when I am with a significant other, then when I am by myself. It is a defense mechanism…
I find it strange. How much we forget history, even though it is taken at every grade until graduation. I find it strange what history is taught and what is not. We blame schools for most of our short comings. “I was not taught how to…manage moneyfind a passionbalance a check bookstart a buissnessmeditatebe happy.” That was not its job…
There is a part of meA small part with a loud voice. The claims I don’t belong. Not in the way that traps me in bed. Rather the kind that wants to be in a hotelor a hostelor a tentor a bed of my car.
I envy those who remain A child. Living in fantasy Brandishing a sword, Or Greeting the world with wand in hand.
Who shot an arrow Or cast a spell When the world told themNo Demeanor…