Melodrama

“One” once asked, “What happens to a dream deferred?”
With credit to his thinking
I prefer to...

Keep those Pretty HEELS on,
“All Night Long”.
A Right of Passage,
the Real Glass...

I will keep breathing and smiling
And joining in on all of the rides

I will grin,...

Tuesday must be saved
from neglect, from monotony and
from the chaos of our worries
it...

They want me dead, and probably justly so, For in my youth, I wrought such harm and woe. Now, in my change...

there is always
something good in everything
it can be the soil
the seed, the sun, the...

I am brave, I am tough
I am not supposed to cry
Instead I laugh,
My call...

... The Crash; the Comedown
The ground never felt so hard
This feeling of pressure keeping me...

carpe noctem per diem
be auguries the bedpost has a notch
to prick sleep and hemp...

I asked for truth, despite knowing it would hurt so bad, I asked you to be real with me, even though I knew...

What if heaven is a place that fits as all
And takes us attached by the same string
...

I can't let myself think twice
But I can't help but wonder why Cupid 💘 has to bully me and not have...

Another day starts and nothing has changed, My present seems dead and a future up in flames. So many...

Rocket fuel ignited,
Descending to that place,

We had just spent the last 9 months
...

In the echoes of silence, our love's refrain, I feel the distance, the ache, the pain. Words left unspoken...

SOME DAYS
They tell me life's a journey
That will take me many years
Some days
...

April 21—Salient Image (poem based on one concrete thing you remember at day’s end)

Image of My...