She fought
A losing battle
With
This
She couldn’t
Stop running
Back
She lived
Each day
Hoping
She promised
Herself
It wasn’t
She awoke
Today
Realizing
She needed
Help
[DB]
2-2019
Starting to Forget
I’m starting to forget
What made you laugh
Why you smiled that way
Your scrunched up faces
Your presence here
I’m starting to forget
When you first smiled back
How nervous I was to ask
Thoughts you secretly shared
How you tried not to cry
Why you went driving
That day
I’m starting to forget
How much I needed you
The light you brought everywhere
How much I miss you
I’m starting to forget
That you’re gone
And
I’m starting to forget
That it wasn’t always
This way
[DB]
2-2019
Once
We once
Couldn’t wait
We desperately
Clung to each other
We were us
We once
Finished what we started
Thought of each other
Did everything together
We once
Fulfilled our dreams
Brought warmth to those
All around
We once
Were inseparable
Once
And
Sitting here
Alone
I realize
I never
Once
Stopped
Loving you
[DB]
2-2019
Only
Only normal
Only common
Only average
Only forgettable
Only okay
Only every day
Only here
Only just me
But standing here
Holding on to you
I’m only yours
[DB]
2-1019
Return
Return to me
Don’t shy away
Stand by my side
Return to my dreams
Sway in my thoughts
Adorn my smiles
Return to my words
Wrap me in metaphors
Swaddle me in rhyme
Return to our seasons
Spring out as rosebuds
Sprinkle me in rain
Wash away my desert
Bring light back
Return to my life
Desire my presence
Drink in my moods
Drift off in whispers
As we wonder off
Hand in hand
[DB]
2-2019
Only in Dream
Rush toward eyelids
Wished truth in dream
Breath a ghost in human shape
For my heart a vaccine
Hair darkened chestnut
Smile awakens or’e browns
Eyes alight in bailiwick
Breathless thoughts, sounds
To have met in silence
Tendrils alighting waves
I live for dreams to see you
Our own non casual slaves
[DB]
2-2019
The Convict
Disowning in desire
Embracing want
Ushered chaotic thought
Peaceful rejection
Permissive lies
Bound ruthlessly taunt
Desperately forgetting
Memory unbound
Can not forget
Greatest mistake
Locked away joy
Soul unending in ache
No chance for the weak
No strength for the strong
Loss of life
For everyone involved
[DB]
2-1019
Couldn’t Stop
She couldn’t stop
Trying to change
Couldn’t stop
Constantly adapting
Couldn’t stop
Hiding herself
Couldn’t stop
Forgetting who she was
She couldn’t notice
He cared for her
Couldn’t see
He just wanted her
Couldn’t just be
He only saw her
She stopped trying
He waited for her
She stopped pretending
He loved her so deeply
She couldn’t see herself
Without him
[DB]
2-2019
Before the Knowns
Before the knowns
Before reaching our beyond
Before catching hold
Before time unwound in shadowy ribbons
Where emotional dreams
Obscured true Reality
Before our selfishness
Exploded before us
As Shattered Glass
We bowed to neglect
Hungover on grievances
Shards of forgotten memories
Now only derision
Mockery of a past
Unrewindable and Forgotten
[DB]
2-2019
The Possibility
Simply declaring
Not understanding
One’s sorrow or sadness
Misery in depression
Outsiders question
Assume power of suggestion
But living in woe
Grief in tow
Zero ability to let go
Takes staggering time
Patience sublime
Getting help
With what’s amiss
Before starting to
Believe again, in the possibility
Of bliss
[DB]
1-2019