Bent, burnt, and broken Lightning strikes loudly Rainstorm tears ravenously Poor solitary tree Who will pull you back up? Burnt, broken, and bent Downed but dutiful Spread and soiled Pushed onto the ground Who will sit with you? Broken, bent, and burnt Battled yet bountiful […]
All he wanted to do was chomp He was born to chomp And a good chomp he had Everyone told him so growing up He could chomp, chomp, chomp with the best of them He was boxed up Ready to serve the world or at least a […]
Why? Why not? You are hiding something Shame on you You pretend to be a friend But are instead a rat in a fur coat Your conscience will not let you sleep You stepped on many to rise At some point you will be stepped on […]
I have nothing to say All the words are gone I have run ragged and tired Nothing to spit out Can’t come up with a new sentence No stories to share No thoughts to process out loud No crankiness to vent No jokes to snark on No secrets […]
Done with your lies Your ego trips Your disingenuous sighs Done with your false morality And manufactured outrage And bully eyes pushing an evil duality Done with your smirk Which you try to pass as insight But just come off as a jerk Done with your condescending bit […]
It may seem daunting Like everything is dark Everything is dismal Pulling you in deep Imprisoned in a dungeon Certainty is dead And time delayed Tired and disturbed Nothing feels doable Toxicity fully draining Looming residual danger Nothing seems digestible But it’s just a moment In a […]
Came so close to letting it out Freeing myself from your demons Liberating my consciousness So close But your demons still haunt me Your secrets still occupy my container I need a roundabout A well-intentioned beacon To steel me against the conscienceless So […]
I am not too sure why we have to, as a society, remind people that everyone is layered. We are not just one thing or the other. In my past life as a facilitator (trainer), I would often ask the session participants to think of five […]
I should know better And indeed, I do But yet, I don’t know better And, I know I should I should know better But I do the opposite Fully aware I’m not doing better It’s the same old story Time should know better But it […]
There’s no way to escape the truth Even when we lie to ourselves Our truths linger in the precipice Our lies bleed onto our conscious The truth’s hangover is deep Waves of guilt pushing out the venom Crying only brings more pain Nose to the bowl […]