Change

Change Home > Poetry > This poem You’ve changed, I’d say derisively To people I no longer knew Yet today the girl in the mirror Is another with regrets few   Some say she should’ve stayed ‘Cause the sun always shined But shadows have their own wisdom And she has all the time 

Tale as old as time

Tale as old as time Home > Poetry > This poem How do you sleep by yourself tonight knowing full well that I’m not there?  Please show me how to do it right,  to feign belief that I don’t care.   Guess it’s true I’m not fooling them,  not least of all people, you Maybe […]

Unexplained Urges

Unexplained Urges Home > Poetry > This poem Have you ever sat in a coffee shop and had the sudden urge to go over to the stranger seated across hiding behind her book You’ll tell her you remember How the book took you by surprise made you cry like a child And that she’s the […]

Transience

Transience Home > Poetry > This poem It was last night I finally stumbled upon transience and her tightly guarded secret   of moments that end of lovers no more of strangers once friend of rivers that dried of tears never cried   oh, these moments will always be mine so I hold them tight […]

Sit with it

Sit with it Home > Poetry > This poem My earliest memory, decades old Wooden chair and brown thatched roof. Eyes blurry, my young cheeks moist Grandpa’s arms felt bulletproof.    Promised comfort, my safe harbor I never had need to look too far. We rocked slowly on that wooden chair  ‘Sit with it’ he […]

Weep

Weep Home > Poetry > This poem I have to leave, let you go It’s what I need for me It’s not because you won’t be missed but now I finally see All this pain, no it’s not something I want to keep And you won’t notice this mess we’ve made of my heart that […]

New Life, Old Fears

New Life, Old Fears Home > Poetry > This poem I can’t really be the only one Who’s tried to begin life anew, Chasing dreams in a foreign city Unfamiliar people to come home to.    Warm and gracious on the surface Though never fully letting you in, Their smiles remind of another life Where […]

Fading Friends

Fading Friends Home > Poetry > This poem No one tells you how to think or feel, When friends from old aren’t always to keep.    They don’t warn you about life’s changing roads Which bring you near and promise evermore.    That knifelike ache when you see them again  So common and yet no […]

Practised Apathy

Practised Apathy Home > Poetry > This poem I know a girl who danced every day  Swinging maniacally like a wildflower,  From sinking empathy to carefree apathy Some days sunny, others dark.    Her naive eyes scanned the outside world Looking, but not really seeing, Sights of smiles and tears in equal measure Looking was […]

Slow Love

Slow Love Home > Poetry > This poem Look at me! She beams, twirling around in green He smiles, gentle & slow For unlike the others who gawk at her form He would much rather learn what she hides fiercely in her pockets Tucked safely away from the world’s prying eyes