i gave you that smile

i gave you that smile wasn’t hard to do, you seemed puzzled not sure what to do when we passed i made a point to look you in the eye and i smiled with my heart and it showed through my eyes i watched you continue walking down the street and you head raised up…

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pants still on

almost ashamed to say, but if you expect to get better there isn’t another way you have to be willing to tell on yourself i won’t try to explain and i don’t know that i could but along the way i have confused sex with love i understand this isn’t an uncommon presumption, but i…

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the thief is me

took me awhile to see when i take from you, i take from me the things i do in defense don’t keep me safe they dig a trench and i’m the one who falls this modern approach to right and wrong would have us to believe there are various stages to the process and often…

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let me go

let me go, i cannot stay, yesterday is gone, now go away you have this need to correct the past, but it like trying to paint a cat, they won’t hold still and you just make a mess let me go let me go and do productive things, helping someone or just being a friend,…

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status

i would not dare say i could care less of what others think of me but i clearly have in my mind all those people do not lay their head on my pillow when i sleep it isn’t natural not to want to be liked, but everything we do or don’t do comes with a…

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my coffee God cold

i was feeling kinda crappy and reminded myself that feelings aren’t facts, feels better when i notice things in my behavior before someone else does i had a slight sinus headache and it has lingered for several days and went to a 12 step meeting and saw an old friend that has advanced brain cancer…

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what can we do about Mary

what oh what can we do about Mary, she’s getting closer to the grave everyday her husband has taken the children and she sits in the house and drinks all day the accident keeps her in money and she has the liquor delivered to her door she tried getting sober and said it wasn’t worth…

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God Infidelity

i ask earnestly if You would look after me then when the slightest ripple stirs the boat i begin to pray that it will float You have accomplished great things in my life showed when to walk, and when to fight somehow everything seems to work our right yet i’m still full of fear i…

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gold

i went by to see a friend found him digging in a hole i ask him what he was doing said he heard somewhere near this spot someone had found gold well i said and what would you do if this treasure you did find ”why i would build a castle or buy a plane…

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fewer words

i am a minimalist writer if i don’t leave any holes there’s no place for you to add your 2 cents laborious descriptions that do everything but brush your teeth are boring to me give me the concept, the idea and i’ll blow up the balloon simple and concise is how i slice, you determine…

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