Category: Life's Lessons
Life in a Cage
March 26th, 2007Life in a cage
Child bone fingers claw the bars
Child in the hospital room
Child in the mind
There's no way out
Please, kind sir, throw me a slice of meat
Split me from the realness of it all
Operate with pencil points
And write out my heart
The… more »
Liberated
March 24th, 2007Liberated
Cage opened, bird flown
Strings cut, marionette leapt
Cover removed, ballerina spun and grooved
Out of the music box
Book opened, thoughts soared
Stimulated head, heart leapt
Mind opened, learned and grew
Out of my static box… more »
From Hole to Pinnacle
March 23rd, 2007You're looking at the pinnacle
It seems so far away
The pebble in your hand
Feels like a boulder in your way
You're straining 'neath its weight
It's hard to stand up tall
You feel as if you're at square one
Have just begun to crawl
You tell y… more »
Winter Leaf
March 22nd, 2007I thought we were friends, and that would last forever.
We'd never let each other down. I was wrong.
I was a stepping stone in a puddle. You hopped across the water, using my back; then you walked on, leaving me there, face sunk down in the mud.
I… more »
Philophosizing Bullshit
March 18th, 2007Philosophizing Bullshit
Sitting, whiling away time
In order to decide nothing
Create questions while
Answers elude us
We sit
Stare at a crack in the wall
And contemplate the reality
The concreteness
Reflect on the past
Comment on the present
W… more »
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