Poem: The Wishing Hour

The wishing hour Is those rare hours Between sunset And moonrise darkness Where wishing stars Can be seen The wishing hour Is when I found you Lonely in a field waiting But for what Was it for me The wishing hour She said to me Is when I feel hopeful Sending wishes To the heaven

Poem: Desperation Days

Thursdays are desperation days
So close to the weekend they entice
To behavior better saved for Friday nights
I’m laying here half naked and half awake
Listening to breathing that’s not my own
Thinking maybe I made another mistake

Poem: Coin Toss

Sometimes love is like a gamble
Where you lay all your chips down
Allowing the cards to fall where they may
Never recognizing the deck was loaded
And you were a loser from the start

Poem: Happy Endings

She’s grown up on stories
Of princesses in castles
With long flowing hair
And knights that chase after
Their happy endings

Poem: Night Falls Hopeless

Night falls on the city. I’m here falling on my knees. Somewhere out there I picture you falling in between the world you came from and the world you found yourself in.

Poem: Corporeal

In the early morning
When the sun still sleeps
I can hear the clock keeping time
Between her slumbering breaths
While I’m awake contemplating
The choices we made leading us on

Poem: Lonely Halls with Echos of Plans

In rooms where guests used to congregate in I sit alone
With my thoughts focused on the notable absence of you
Whose angelic voice would fill up these hollow halls with song
Where the people would dance and marvel at the spectacle

Poem: A Fragile Heart

A fragile heart
That still remains unbroken
Is missed potential

Poem: Deepest of Blues

We watched the sun set and the moonrise
Until the moon set and the sun rose again
The horizon circling around us
Like we were the very center of the universe
The infinite heavens stretched above us
Stars burned falling lost forever
Beyond our notice as we were lost

Poem: Reading the Blanks

On this blank page I see a mirror
That’s reflecting me and deeper still
It shines with all those wishes
That I wish would be