Emptiness

I am lightyears from your heart Even though I touch your soul Your lips  My words Two hearts reaching  Looking Everywhere  For everything  Except each other  I’ve looked deep into the abyss  I’ve seen the brokenness in your heart and I fill it with my own Emptiness 

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Gratitude

I spend my day looking for things to be grateful for. I try never to look for things or reasons to be angry or feel hate. I look for the good in everyone, even the people who try to hurt me or the people I love. When I see something in someone I don’t like…

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Live in it

I stand before you My life naked to the world The king of squandered potential The leper you created to frighten yourself Stories you tell to frighten small children The same children you beat and rape Hiding in the shadows of your mind I live rent free  Leaping out to the sounds of silence  …but…

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So Little 

The snow fell in silence over the lake Morose and frigid  As I stood waiting for your touch  My lips chapped My thoughts scattered  Waiting  It seems like I’m always waiting for something  You I spend too much time alone  Too much for my heart to like it Too much for my weary soul  I’m…

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Anyway 

I wish I could cry At least I might feel better Feel something  Someone  Does anyone feel for me? No I didn’t think so I can look away Sometimes I want to walk away  but where would I go? Where would I rest my head Weary and lost Alone in a crowd of strangers Who…

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Walking the River 

Somewhere Sometimes   I walk Deep inside my mind  My heart open to the Universe  To ideas  Ideas of being a better man and you are right by my side My love Guiding me along the river of my own chakras Freeing my ego  Melting the ice that surrounds my passion  Leading beside the still waters …

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Wants

Let me slip into something a little more comfortable  She whispered  Kissing my cheek  I smiled and just sipped my bourbon  She reappeared quicker than usual  Her heavenly figure silhouetted by the light outside of the bedroom window  She walked softly and deliberately across the hardwood floor How like an angel she appears  Glowing  I…

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Self love

We had high hopes  You and I Once we were going to conquer the world We were going to be wild and free Once we were going to be real and faithful  Once upon a time  So long ago Now I see you and see vague illusions of what you were Grander delusions of happiness …

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