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My body is broken
But doesn't really matter
How badly beat up I get
My soul still wants
To pick a fight

I guess us fighters
Are just made like that
We never really know
When and how to quit
We're too **** tough
For our own good

We just want that fire
So we keep pushing
On and forward
Forward and on
A repost of a piece that I wrote last september, while trying to shake myself off a depressive episode... couldn't be more appropriate: I'm fighting really hard right now.
Her daddy's gone
he's flown away
the skies are quiet
on this darkened day
but for one little bird
who sings her tune
a sombre melody
to a hollow moon
she sings for loss
for love her first
and though he's flown
and she has grown
a daughter's love is always known
he may be gone
but she sings on
knowing she can sing
because he has Angel wings.
I wrote this poem for a friend after their father passed away, it was inspired by their love of the Bob Marley song Three Little Birds.
I could write nonsensical
and make the words not rhyme at all
but would you read my ramblings
and consider me insane?
for spilling thoughts from my brain
Would you care to hear me talk?
if I spoke like a fork
Or would a spoon be easier to swallow?
if it was full of smiles
Tell me, am I terrible or knife?
the cost of admittance is worth the price
Does a placemat stack against the vocabulary at my disposal?
maybe I should consider your proposal
to live a coherent life
to colour within the lines
I am a crayon box of imagination
excuse me for drawing on the walls.
rage smells like smoldering embers,
rage looks like bloodstained fists,
rage sounds like elevated heartbeats,
rage feels like a tidal wave,
yet rage tastes like charred ashes,
because its twin causes upset,
her name, after all… is regret.
 Mar 3 Maryann I
matt r
my eyes are doughnut-holed;
rolled in fluorescent calflove
& eaten by the long walk there

to where she talks, florid
and smelling of sweetgrass,
of her lemon pancake fling.
If the rain could weave your touch into mine,
I'd let it drench me, time after time.
Perhaps in a place where clocks don't turn,
You’d find me waiting, a love unlearned.

 Mar 3 Maryann I
Damian
Feel me gently
When I lay beside you
Touch me softly
When I look at you
How lucky to stumble upon each other
How lucky to call this moment mine
When you lay your head on my chest
When I get to ruffle your hair
When we cuddle until we fall asleep
Let my hands guide themselves to you
Let me hold you, pull you in, hug you, ill never let go
I want to show you the gentlest of loves
don't be a stranger
Lilac hush
earth, half-waking,
baroque birdsong.

Moss curls ,
dew beads on nettle’s tongue
small, glassy prayers.

wind
silk-handed seamstress
stitches light into every leaf,
veiling the world
breath and bloom.

Bones of old trees cradle the sun’s milk,
wildflowers nestle in their ribs
what dies here, lives softer.

river, translucent and slow,
spills silver veins , the skin of the valley
a quiet pulse beneath the green.

Somewhere between sky and soil,
we become the silence
lungs folding into pollen-laden air,
fingertips brushing the hem of forever.

Nothing belongs.
Nothing is apart.

In the meantime,
the world remakes itself
petal by petal, wing by wing
and we, fragile passengers,
are simply learning how to listen.

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