

FatherAs a father, you are someone to be remembered, A face that memories gravitate towards, Like little moths queuing around a light source. Yours is a face to be memorized, So that when I look into the mirror I don't forget where I came from, I don't forget what I am, and what you were... To me; when you tried to be a father.Father
But how many years has it been? Since I last saw your eyes feign interest in my own. Five, or is it six now? I'm starting to lose you completely. Even standing and staring at the mirror doesn't work for me anymore. Where are you? Becau


Baby RobinA baby robin jumped out of the nest the morning, While his wings were still too adolescent for flight. Already exhausted with his mother's ordinances, And his siblings pushing and shoving, He had to get free of the nest. I watched as instincts instructed his first flying lesson; Hopping, hopping, flapping wildly,Baby Robin
Hopping and flapping and screaming out in frustration, But nothing. So juvenile, these wings, that they produced no more than two inches of lift, Then gave out, and tired. But the baby robin, either too absurd to realize he would never get off the ground, or per


After You've LiedAfter finding out you've lied to me, I sit on my hands when in your presence. Try to crush them and bruise them Keep them from forming two knotsAfter You've Lied
That strike you once in the temple And again in the mandible.
After finding out you've lied to me, I lock myself in every room in the house, Release my hands from solitary confinement And let my fists connect with anything they see fit. Walls and windows and bleeding knuckles seem to comfort them a bit.
After finding out you've lied to me, I can't remember how to speak. Perhaps it's an evolutionary tactic for
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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle. (Anais Nin)
Your poetry and prose has a pretty fluency and a lovely cadence.
You are really talented
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If you're reading this message, I bet you that you spend a lot of your time staring at glowing rectangles.
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And be a simple kind of man; just be something you love and understand. (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
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