the family secrets

why was i in that car……..with a man i did not know why did my Father tell me to go and it would be okay what were we looking for and why was i taken away i do not remember much of anything and i wonder to this day………..did something happen i wanted to forget…

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”why’d you come back”

sitting on a bench at the Trailways station going back home after a summer with grandparents in Cleveland, Tenn…..got my ticket….. be home by Midnight……brother will pick me up….. a young freak…..hair down my back and i’m young enough not to be intimidated and stupid enough not to leave well enough alone…………………guy a few feet…

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don’t have a clue

i watched you with your cardboard sign, dirty clothes and tattered shoes…….your sign said”needing food”…your face said ”need a drink”……..i watched as a few cars stopped and then came reality……….someone handed you a mask quickly drove away………i saw you shake your head……and throw the mask by you sack……..i could see the words like a billboard…

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sitting on top of a gift/ the world

i’m sitting on top of the world……….not the creator…….nor a king……………………..a single dot that appreciates everything[okay…..okay……..at this moment……check back with me]…………………………the minute and the majestic……… a person in their right mind should find, if only momentarily, peace and comfort gazing at the amazing world around them…..if not consider reevaluating your values…………… from a perspective of…

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getting comfortable in my own skin/ finding freedom

my hair is out of place ……..it feels great………no desire to run to the mirror and get it straight….getting comfortable in my own skin socks don’t match, pants a tad bit short……….not a fashion show just disrupting my yard……….the world seems to like my clear disregard………for things that don’t amount to the stuff in my…

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suicide by food/ for sugar man

we humans tend to be very strange……..the same mind can be a savant or an idiot at the same time…….often minutes apart……. the same one who reads of others taking their life, while chopping on a donut……….dismissing the fact they are diabetic some parts loves me…………….some parts hates me…………….and most parts are indifferent………ttucro the average…

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blood on our hands

not a pleasant thought, but not as hard as Calvary when a lamb without blemish was Crucified for you and me when we have the nerve to say we just can’t comprehend, look down brother……look down sister…….we have blood our our hands when we scorn the centurions…. remember you hand was on that spear when…

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oh really…..compared to what………….

sometimes you use advice long after it is given…….and you tend to keep it if it is good, even if you don’t realize at the time…………… for instance…………….stay in your lane.… my journey is my journey………..and your journey is your journey……………..i can admire, inquire and enjoy your travels.. but they are yours…..not mine when i…

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