Month: December 2019

I start to cry, calm before the storm
Now you’ve done it my heart is torn.

Two clouds,
One cold with sadness
Another burning with hate
Form together to make
ME
A tornado fast as the flash
My screech of lightning shatters glass.
Ripping houses from the ground soaring in the air
Mom screaming at me
“Stop right there!”

A whirlwind of feelings clouds my mind,
Boy you’re in big trouble this time.

She stoops over me like the tallest tree,
At this young age my shoe size is only two point three.
Energy drained I begin to pout
Now i’ve done it, i’m banished to timeout.

“What are you doing?”
Her friend asked.
“I’m playing MINECRAFT!”
She was sitting there
Still as a board.
“Hey what’s your name?”
Someone said over the mic.
“Just call me Ms. R.”
She replied.
The blanket was screaming to get off of her.
“Fine, I’ll get off of MINECRAFT!”
She said.
Thank you Ms. Random!
Her friend said.

Speed limits…
They keep you in place
Just like parents.
Watching over you
Making sure your in place.

Surrounded with signs
Enclosed with warnings.
Around every corner
No way around it
Cant get away from it.

There to keep you safe
At all times night and day.

there I was with my best friend
my one and only
we would laugh and play
he’d follow me around like a magnet
just as it was meant to be

but…
as time passed we grew older
we were not as close
we made different friends–
our personal belongings that the other could not touch
just as it was meant to be

we tried to keep them for ourselves
but our friends took different paths
and once again, all that was left was us
just as it was meant to be

Brothers.

The rain
Fell as she walked
Through the empty parking lot
The sound of the rain soothing her
Soul

It’s clear blue color
Is mocking the road
As it punches it harder
Each time a drop hits it

And as she grew older
When everything got bad
She’d go back to that parking lot
Where it rained that day
And her
Soul was soothed once again
And she decided to change

When i was small,
i was afraid of the
Demon under my bed

Now I’m tall,
and I’m afraid of the Demon in my head

She kept me up all night
The Demon

My Demon

i hid under the blankets
But i can no longer hide
from the demon in my head
I cower like a toddler
She grabbed my feet
and pulled me under the bed
Or I guess maybe into my head
i grab the blankets
i search the darkness for a light to hold on to
i try to resist and hold on for a little bit longer
But its to late
I’m pulled under
The darkness suffocates me

I look at my demon.
She looks just like me

You can sail across the seven seas,
Feel the oceans wispy breeze,
Climb like a monkey from tree to tree,

Travel around the world with me,
Surf the waves of the sea,
Feel the arctics cold cold freeze,

Enjoy the outside with the bees,
Be one with the trees.

But please oh please never forget
Forever and forever
As far as you go
There’s no place like home.

At night,
when I am cold and scared,
my grandmother comes.
She’s the only one to comfort me.

Her small, intelligent eyes,
always looking at the page of a book
with strange letters I don’t understand.
Except A, the start of my name.
Her thin, dark hair streaked with gray,
tied in a tight bun
put together with a carefully carved stick,
perhaps by someone she loved very dearly.
Her worn, hard hands
curled around mine,
barely bigger than her palm.

She’d say,
“You remind me of your father, you know,
the way you’d climb onto that windowsill,
insisting on seeing the stars.”
Or,
“You are just like your mother, you know,
the way you eat your dinner.
I remember, having her over sometimes.
It always saddens me that you never got to meet them.”

Tonight,
I am cold and scared,
wearing a black dress and clutching a book, damp from tears.
I stare at the sky as if looking for something.
The wind screeches, the leaves cackle, the stars are empty of light.
There is no one to comfort me tonight.

Hawaii is a dream come true
With amazing views
We woke up to the sound of waves crashing
Swoosh
The water is like a clear crystal
The food was a ten out of ten
The sand felt like you were on the sun
But the sand was soft
The air felt fresh
The palm trees were pretty
But the plane ride was long
It felt like a year
But I don’t regret it
Because it was worth it

imagine being
trapped in a zoo,
with all the strangers
perusing you.

imagine watching
life behind bars,
with all your dreams
entangled into jars.

imagine having
no one to turn to,
ROAR! makes your heart jump,
so loud, so true.

imagine craving
just to be free.
but maybe it’s not imagination,
maybe it’s Me.