"Between Truth And Lie"

All reason has fled

Compassion...

Kindness...

Respect...

The cold bite of abandonment stings deep

Piercing my already numb heart

Words fail to form upon my tongue

Quivering lips barely contain a whimper...

Thoughts are thick

Heavy with weight

Dragging their way through the corridors of my mind

Empty memories vanish

Leaving holes in time already played

A brief history made, now erased

Unanswered questions mock my resolve to move on

Passed the blood shed

My senses sift through the sentences told

Between truth and lie...

But a line cannot be found

Who knew happiness could spell out hell lived so quickly...

Tears call out to a person who no longer exists

Finger prints left stain my skin

The last mark your touch ever made

All things built

Now burnt out ruin

All of this feels more like a crime scene rather than love lost

This is the nameless grave dug for my heart

Buried deep beneath an unmarked stone...

Published in: "Island Tides"
Anthology of verse
Poetry Institute of Canada

© 2017

"Worth The Fight"

Your eyes hold in a fixed gaze

Waist deep in the turmoil of life

You wade through the turbulent waters

A river of tears flow freely from within

There is no stopping the flood

Anger

Pain

Confusion

Depression boils out from the cracks within the surface

Nothing can be hidden form the eyes of the world

For all has become bigger than yourself

Its grown beyond your world

And almost past the realm of understanding

How do you find yourself here?

Abandonment has come to pass

From the only safe harbor you once knew

Footsteps have led you to this place of darkness

Now filled with too many empty corners where sunlight no longer shines

Destination unknown

But what is...?

One must embrace those things that are

We are more than our mistakes

Breath into and though the moments

Sometimes life takes its own path

We must do our best to hang on

Hold on and reach out

Because when we rise together

Strength is found in numbers.

© 2017

"When We Rise"

We all fall down upon the path of life

Its that lesson learned

And the scars that tell the stories

The importance is to rise to the fight

A spark lost must be rekindled

Let it burn bright

Shine your light

When those moments of inspiration hit

embrace them

Seize all that is offered

Allow them flow through you

Let motivation find you

Seek the source

Find the root

Wherever that may be

Be more than these moments

Breath through them...

Let your new path rise up and meet your eager feet

Regain your ground once so proudly fought and won

Because all of this is not just merely surviving

It's life...

Living

And its' existing!

© 2017