"...the thoughts that breathe and the words that burn."
October 2017
You dressed me in the best of blues
But
I had a hard time
feeling pretty
in their shades
But
I had a hard time
feeling pretty
in their shades
August 2017
I can feel the stars pulling me by my hair
my eyes have yet to follow
The day I find my way
is the day
I'll lose my sorrow
my eyes have yet to follow
The day I find my way
is the day
I'll lose my sorrow
August 2017
She's a daughter and a lover
A mother with a solid heart
A woman of opinion
And
A woman of courage
One to shout for her own
And breathe
For everything else
A holder of secrets
And a confidant
A familiar face in a world
that can be so gray
She's a friend that's family
And above all else
She's a sister
A mother with a solid heart
A woman of opinion
And
A woman of courage
One to shout for her own
And breathe
For everything else
A holder of secrets
And a confidant
A familiar face in a world
that can be so gray
She's a friend that's family
And above all else
She's a sister
July 2017
You begged me to love you
And so
There I was
Yours
Loving you
It burnt like the sun striking mid noon
It amended my very being
my bones,
my heart
My life
Your destiny became my desire,
Strife turned to serendipity
Discord to daydreams
You pulled me like the tide pulls the moon
But,
Vacillated voids and unspoken words
Damage hard beaten souls
And even the tide gets tired of pulling,
and the moon
tired of shining
Even so,
Your embrace made it hard
not to try
And I'd of been a fool to walk too fast
or hide
from the enticing principles
of your mind
You traced everything I knew
with a different color;
Hues that were since
unseen
they shone so beautifully that I had to make them mine
And as if that weren't enough,
I'd dance in them too
I swayed through the ambers
that bled through your embrace,
And the pastels that shouted
your whispers
I twirled in your sultry shades of scarlet,
and skipped amongst the beautiful Tuscan tones of your stare
It was warm there,
where I danced
In the pigment of all your passion
and while I've always been so scared of getting cold,
I have since had faith in a day
where I'd never see the snow
Because of you
loving me,
And me
Loving you
And so
There I was
Yours
Loving you
It burnt like the sun striking mid noon
It amended my very being
my bones,
my heart
My life
Your destiny became my desire,
Strife turned to serendipity
Discord to daydreams
You pulled me like the tide pulls the moon
But,
Vacillated voids and unspoken words
Damage hard beaten souls
And even the tide gets tired of pulling,
and the moon
tired of shining
Even so,
Your embrace made it hard
not to try
And I'd of been a fool to walk too fast
or hide
from the enticing principles
of your mind
You traced everything I knew
with a different color;
Hues that were since
unseen
they shone so beautifully that I had to make them mine
And as if that weren't enough,
I'd dance in them too
I swayed through the ambers
that bled through your embrace,
And the pastels that shouted
your whispers
I twirled in your sultry shades of scarlet,
and skipped amongst the beautiful Tuscan tones of your stare
It was warm there,
where I danced
In the pigment of all your passion
and while I've always been so scared of getting cold,
I have since had faith in a day
where I'd never see the snow
Because of you
loving me,
And me
Loving you
July 2017
Sometimes it feels as though I was put on earth for you
for them
For everyone else but me
Like God saw a fire in me
that was set aflame to keep everyone else warm
But it's cold where I am
So maybe he forgot
that fires need attention too
For if not
they can burn out
and when the wood turns to ash
the fire into smoke
there will be no more warmth to give
Who will I be
Who am I after the fire burns out
A smoldering hill
of what used to be
before everyone else took what I needed most
My spark will fall dark
and I will wonder
when a fire will be lit
for me
Even then
how do I know
if it's there to keep me warm
or to burn me
for them
For everyone else but me
Like God saw a fire in me
that was set aflame to keep everyone else warm
But it's cold where I am
So maybe he forgot
that fires need attention too
For if not
they can burn out
and when the wood turns to ash
the fire into smoke
there will be no more warmth to give
Who will I be
Who am I after the fire burns out
A smoldering hill
of what used to be
before everyone else took what I needed most
My spark will fall dark
and I will wonder
when a fire will be lit
for me
Even then
how do I know
if it's there to keep me warm
or to burn me
May 2017
There was a light inside me
I told myself
Although it shun
through shattered glass
There was a light inside me
Burning through the darkness
Surfacing
There was a light inside me
Unseen in my darkest hours
Dimmed or destroyed
Flickering
There was a light inside me
I'd seen it before
Bleeding through the empty cracks
Passing through the lowest depths
There was a light inside me
I told myself
Although it shun
Through shattered glass
There was a light inside me
I told myself
Although it shun
through shattered glass
There was a light inside me
Burning through the darkness
Surfacing
There was a light inside me
Unseen in my darkest hours
Dimmed or destroyed
Flickering
There was a light inside me
I'd seen it before
Bleeding through the empty cracks
Passing through the lowest depths
There was a light inside me
I told myself
Although it shun
Through shattered glass
There was a light inside me
April 2017
It's a storm here with out you,
And a hurricane when you're here
The days I wonder where you are
Are the same
As when I ask why you're here
A love so uncertainly certain
Questionably off
But somehow right
I may not know why
Or even how
Though I do know
It's a storm here with out you
It's a hurricane when you're here
But dancing in the rain
has
And always will be
My best memory
And a hurricane when you're here
The days I wonder where you are
Are the same
As when I ask why you're here
A love so uncertainly certain
Questionably off
But somehow right
I may not know why
Or even how
Though I do know
It's a storm here with out you
It's a hurricane when you're here
But dancing in the rain
has
And always will be
My best memory
March 2017
Some see it as the Devil's work
Wrapped in the sound
of breaking glass
It's a blatant yet silent scream
in the middle of a crowd
Unheard
Tell me not to listen
Tell me
it's in my head
It's hanging on
When there's nothing to hold
And somehow
every breath taken
Is your last
It's being face down
in the water of the unknown
And you tell me
To just breathe
And so I ask
Will I ever feel the stillness
in not knowing
Will I ever know the future
as not in your control
But rather
in my own
And will I ever see the beauty
without your grasp
On my view
Or will I always be
an etching of your work
Wrapped in the sound
of breaking glass
It's a blatant yet silent scream
in the middle of a crowd
Unheard
Tell me not to listen
Tell me
it's in my head
It's hanging on
When there's nothing to hold
And somehow
every breath taken
Is your last
It's being face down
in the water of the unknown
And you tell me
To just breathe
And so I ask
Will I ever feel the stillness
in not knowing
Will I ever know the future
as not in your control
But rather
in my own
And will I ever see the beauty
without your grasp
On my view
Or will I always be
an etching of your work
January 2015
I try so hard
to explain
the vibrancy in my head
but it ceases itself
at my lips
For speaking of it would break
a thousand tides
and heat
the coldest hearts
to explain
the vibrancy in my head
but it ceases itself
at my lips
For speaking of it would break
a thousand tides
and heat
the coldest hearts
May 2012
I go to sleep with faith
wake with weariness
I wake with weariness
hope for change
I let go of hope
time takes control
struck by calamity again
the end is far from here
I go to sleep with faith
I sleep alone
wake with weariness
I wake with weariness
hope for change
I let go of hope
time takes control
struck by calamity again
the end is far from here
I go to sleep with faith
I sleep alone
||R.H.
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