If
There
Was
One thing
To be
I ask
That you
Embrace
Any pseudonym
For after
Those words
I never want to hear
Your thoughts
On this
Broken name
Again
[DB]
3-2019
Lies
Breaking promises
Losing sight
Standing in awe
Lies crawl out of you
Flying from your voice
As rain pounding on my
head and chest
I hear sounds like words
But my heart only
Responds in sobs
Reverberating in a mind
Untuned to anything
Felt or stated
From You
[DB]
3-2019
Gone
Gone were the days
When she knew
Gone were the days
When she understood
Gone were the days
When she enjoyed
Gone were the days
When she wanted
Gone were the days
When she objected
Gone were the days
When she imbibed
Gone were the days
When she desired being
Without someone
Her pride demolished
She decided to call
Him back
[DB]
3-2019
Every Part
Hanging on
Every
Word
Laughing and
Expressing
Desiring always
Your company
I only know
Without question
Totally
Insanely
Beside myself
In love
With only
Every part
Of you
[DB]
3-2019
Slowly
Light folds in the pocket
Of her life were beginning
To iron
Some thought it was age
Others experience
She didn’t know
Not for sure
But having someone around
Who cared, listened
Was comforting and
Allowed her in small ways
To open up and
Slowly tell her story
[DB]
3-2019
Summoned by an Army of Doubt
Summoned by an army of doubt
I slipped into armor cold, blue
Flinty without feeling
I stood firm as the steel of my words
Flung around and about
Damage immediate, hostile
Language lanced, cut to the quick
Emotions bloodied ran red,
Slopped around and in my being
Filling my chainmailed heart
with a hollowing loneliness I’d created
and now had no one left
With which to help
Undress or remove
[DB]
3-2019
There Was a Day
There was a day
I felt loved
You still messaged
Spoke small nothings
Just looked
At me
There was a time
I remember
Just enjoying
Us
Being Me
Just enjoying
You
There was a life
I used to live
Used to enjoy
Used to believe
Used to understand
There was a person
Who existed
Who was everything
Who I
Desperately miss
[DB]
3-2019
Hope
Needlessly
Abandoned
Wretchedly
Forlorn
Hopelessly
Alone
Benignly
Untold
Gratefully
Hopeful
Unquestionly
Believing
Epitome
Foretold
[DB]
3-2019
If Only Once
If only once
Again I could hear your song
Your words
Notes
Your thoughts
Twirled around my mind
An orchestra of
Majestic beauty
I was overcome
And mistakenly I believed
Your music
Your life
Would be part of mine
Forever
[DB]
3-2019
Why Didn’t You Stay?
If you
Would have
Stayed
I
Would
Only
Have
One less reason
To Believe
You
Cared
[DB]
3-2019