Fresh cut flowers

He didn't give anyone a chance to say goodbye He had been hurting for so long but never spoke up He never told anyone that he had nightmares They came every night so, I hear that he stopped sleeping He spent all his free time in the gym Building up his body and forsaking his [...]

Effigies and Apologies

I apologize I'm sincerely sorry for every sin committed I should have Would have Wish I had A better thing to say This thing doesn't just go away Like a multicolored meteor shower Ignored by the eyes of a blind man Who probably didn't care much anyway All the grace and beauty of this universe [...]

Not broken enough

The raven-haired and dishevelled shrew looked at me over her cluttered, disgusting desk she held my file and read my nameshe asked me to remember numbers and names She flipped through my file she talked at me and barely looked at me I was a fly pin through me held to paper my name stolen [...]

Ernest hemmingway

The doctors and nurses looked at him and frownedAs the lightning rearranged the man's brainHe sputtered and shuddered with his eyelids a-flutterBut the plan was to make the man saneWhen the lightning and thunder that tore him asunderWas finally draining awayThe man, though a poet and artist the man briefly startedThen thought then opened his [...]