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Steve Parker Mar 2021
The sun is setting again
This time she's not tired
This time is like the time before but different

Black
The light fades again
For good this time?
My flowers will wither and die
It is not too late

A child is received again today
But not with the promise of tomorrow
Today is spent
Tomorrow is now
Today is new

Again she settles in
The moon and her slumber
She settles in this time for good
But she
is not
tired
Steve Parker Mar 2021
It is not tomorrow yet
But today
Why does she cry?
What makes her wail so?
Was it me?
Should I be punished?

The wind breaks on the shore like glass on my memory
Sand is forgotten to time like so many martyrs
They throw themselves upon the sword of my own paranoia
Bleeding lies

Again I am besieged
surrounded yet alone
These context have trapped me so
Who are you-you who steadily tip toes through my eyes
         and inner-most desires?
Are you the demon I've been chasing?
Steve Parker Mar 2021
What is it worth to you?
That moment
That day
that feeling
That last breath of a childhood gone erased?

What is it you would give to live again?
Your skin perhaps?
The eyes in which the world beholden you
Or maybe the leg you stand so firm in your own self-righteousness

For just one more moment to live again
Steve Parker Mar 2021
Again these words escape me
Escape my depths as my lips fly across the keyboard
“Release me”
Eyes no longer worthy of this world
Of this life
Of this death
What is to become of him?


Again; nonsense rattles away as I can hear her breathing
Her fluttering heart beats in tune with mine.
I can  feel her love
It's warm

Today is just tomorrow when we find it
Today is just yesterday when we forget it
Today is the first time I've ever seen life
Today is the first day I no longer fear death
Steve Parker Aug 2020
Too much life runs through my veins.  A very poison in itself.
Lost and confused I turn my own sharp anger and hatred to my chest.  
Ready to cut forth my beating empty heart.  
If my chest were a cannon, and my heart were shot,
   I would fire my very soul upon thee,
              loaded with unfathomable love
                     and primed with bitter contempt
  Aug 2020 Steve Parker
Robin Green
You were my son with curly hair
Always up to take that dare..
You have always lent a helping hand
You have grown from my boy into a man.
The time we had went by ever to fast did the
My memories of you shall always last
I did the best by you that I could
Protecting you as a mother should
Too quick from this world you had to pass
My memories of you will always last.
I want you to know I'll always love you
Just as I know you loved me too
For Ronnie
Steve Parker Sep 2019
I am consumed
Too much hurt
Anger
At myself
Hate
At my choices
Disappointment
at my strength
I am my own disaster
At my own hand
Today, but not tomorrow
Tomorrow the sun will rise again
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