Poetica

Authored: December 30, 2016 Anew, the leaves blossom on cold branchesThe shafts of sunlight bring warmth to where coldness once wasAnother year passes byEach day the fading memories lose clarityI stood on the weir overlooking the riverUnder a cloudy sky, felt raindrops on my face.So, life went on and I carried onSomewhere you carried on…

Authored: December 1, 2016 I remember the past and those time of touchI stood and spoke to a strangerOverlooking a deep dropHe told me “Love Isn’t a Fairytale”A stranger came into my life for a brief secondA chance meetingYet it was powerful and moving.The stars burn and fall from the skyOnto the buildings of a…

Authored: November 27, 2016 I remember the face of my fatherI remember the pain he inflicted, and I let it goI remember being bullied during primary schoolI remember the sadness and I let it goI remember the negativity placed on meI remember the worthlessness and I let it go,I was in a fog, and I…

Authored: October 30, 2016 Hold out for a sign,Everything moves in perfect timePatience till it comesThere’s a pattern here, it’s just begun.And you’ll loveAnd you’ll leave.Hold out for a sign,For a pattern to form at the linePatience till it comesThere’s an order here, it’s just begun.And you’ll loveAnd you’ll hate yourself.You’ll regretYou willThere’s an order…

Authored: October 29, 2016 Those promises spoken to a star filled skyYou looked at me and told me things I wanted to hearI believed them all and I believed in youI didn’t understand that thenBut I was with a lieAll those times of silenceWhere I was left fretting and trying to fix thingsWho knew where…

Authored: October 27, 2016 I hope you find happiness within the darkness you inhabitI wish that you find light in the dark reaches that you reside inI pity your next victim.Do you think of me and your other victims?Do you care about how anyone else feels?Or do you simply not care?Your words unraveledWhen I saw…

Authored: October 23, 2016 I have seen the worst and the best in humanityI have witnessed purity, and I have witnessed savageryAll before the stars aboveI often imagine if an alien race were investigating our planetWhat would they think of us?Would we pass muster?Or would we be written off as a species?Where does this propensity…

Authored: October 22, 2016 I am alone now, within loneliness there is introversionThe questions are pondered, answers are elusiveI am regressing, the mental abuse a pinnacleI want to know the why’s to the questionsWhy was I born into a family so dysfunctional?Why I had to endure beatings and mental abuseFrom a father who should have…

Authored: October 10, 2016 He gets on just as the doors close of the train,The platform is almost empty, but the train is fullThe man apologizes as he bumps into another personIt has been raining, the man is wetHe runs his hand along his bald scalp, wiping away water.In his rush to get on the…

Authored: October 8, 2016 Behind the curtains,Away from media,There is an army of the silentSilently in pain, battling awayDepressed, alone, sadThese are societies forgotten.Victims of circumstanceVictims of nefarious soulsThey pay their monies seeking solaceSeeking anything to dull their painSome turn to drugsOthers to drinkAnd the few drop out totally, alone on the streets.There is no…