Sad... I remember choosing to run the verses together to represent the collapse of feeling
Missing
Here I lay in the earth
Only one of 7 billion
One in a hundred
Millions die
and millions live
Soon to be trillion
In this place of mirth
And filled with dread
What can I give?
There is a distant ceiling
In a room with no doors
And a falling floor
Why do I live?
Held at the core
Drowned in mantle
And trapped by rock.
How do I forgive?
Muffled screams
Missing voice
Broken dreams
Lost love
Nebulae A galaxy-filled sky Constellations arbitrary Of stars soon to die And its soul unable to carry The burden of the universe. Falling comets through suns Have seen the life of the cosmos That has hardly begun. Consist of countless...
Full Circle Strong cypress lies aside me Grown out of a field Mockingbird sings freely Never forced to yield. A river of molten rock Runs not far beyond The deer and the crane Visible from any stalk Yet under the pouring rain May yet breed a...
Dreams Come True My skin was literally crawling. I was perched behind a concealing bush in the backyard of a party, but something was happening to me. Then, I felt an impossible pain exploding on every inch of my skin. This crippling pain must have...