the next breath is the last

ready to take off, ready to soarI’m tired of sighing, no longer lyinglaying in the waste, my soul is ready to flyall the money in the world, I still want morethe grass is greener when I’m stilllife is a choice, and I have free willI can see the birds poke their heads outsilently observing, fate […]

Looking Forward

rising higher and higher on a path uncharted yet desired giving sight to unlimited worlds and hated for it what is revealed is also mocked hidden figures become immortal legends the light of worlds unseen is relentless and the paths they lead filled with terror and peace both pleasant and pain everything we see is […]

WWW.

Before I get to the poetry, I’d like to share an assignment I had for my college spring semester: interviewing someone in my field to learn about the field and how to succeed in it. Of course, I had to many people to choose from, so I picked on that I’ve loved for a long […]

Ink and Irrelevance

Ink conveys neither life nor death Blood suggests neither man nor woman Breath itself tells me very little About who you are, and more importantly Why The object of this life we’ve been given Is not to accumulate or accomplish But to prepare and introspect On what’s been done, is happening And will be done, […]

Between My World and Yours

Half-empty bottles litter the countertop And the floor cradles my drunk conquest She’s silently nestled In between this world and the next I watch, hardly consumed by the reckless And wonder why we push ourselves so far Our bodies collapse under constant pressure And minds wrangle with us to do well But drugs and drinks […]

Proliferating Opposites

Nobody needs walls Billions just be destroyed Billions to fall to erosion, weather, and time Billions just to be a thorn In the side of everyone Builders toil, onlookers riot And the people trying to be kept out Keep finding their way in The politics are why we get angry, or care less The spectacle […]

Reluctance

Specks of dust Cloud the perimeter Sweeping the chaos to a corner The negligent, the sinister Standing behind my own bars Like a hardened criminal I try to stay positive but the blood stays cynical Symbiotic with my need to destroy Is the molting of a teenage boy Into half man, half beast Trudging on […]

What Words Bring

I had to get rid of me To find Me The suicidal depressions And disappointment brewed From pornographic misconceptions The boiling, bawling anger I couldn’t control Tearing myself from the flesh I called home Descending into the valley, alone I couldn’t come out until I figured how Embrace my unique in a cookie cutter world […]

Bored (Simply Writing About Autism)

I became bored Simply writing about autism I felt like every one else Just going on about the downfalls The misery, the mistakes It shouldn’t be ignored But it has its place I call it An Aspergian’s Chemical Romance Because I mix love with the acidic burn Of a childhood gone to waste The adoration […]

Wanting, Waiting, Wilting

Radioactive This bond we share Burning drives Yet close and bare Our skin, heated and alive Melting the gap between space and time Always seething, I can’t get enough Humans have companionship, but we have love Brighter than the sun, colder than Titan The moon only shows us one side Because we scarred the other […]