"Our Girl Gets What She Always Wanted..."
It was a dark and stormy night...“You’re shitting us,” Trent hollered above the din of Krazy Vin’s, a local strip club. “Not Allison, she would never… I don’t fucking believe you!”David clamped me on the shoulder, spilling my drink.“Yeah man,...
I'm surrounded by youYou're all the noises in the world -The torrential rainThe gentle breezeThe crack of thunderAnd the butterfly's wing I know youAnd how you know meEvery hitching breathEvery moan and sighEvery different way you cry When I take youEverything ceasesIn...
You don't need to say it all yet,tell me what you find there now.When I sharply inhale your name,fold it deep into the lungs,the heart's unique signature,until the letters are a chantgrowing far beyond itself.With skin as soft as moonlight, bones...
You nurture in me: The song of a loverThe vision of a poetThe inquisitive questions of a child A heart for a tin man Courage for a lionA new mind for a scarecrowYou have planted within me:Courage, so that I can speak my...
"The gift of life and love"
You have seen the shape of my mortalityThe inescapable struggle of loneliness and pain Yet, you choose to give me the gift of life and loveAnd I am unflinchingly aliveIrrepressibly aliveFully alive Full of experiencingEvery fragileMiraculousJuicyAchingTenderBeautiful ounce of loveIgniting the fire that...
"Your care is what I need"
You, nurture within me, The song of a lover, The vision of a poet You quicken within me, the gift of humour So that I can brighten tarnished times Be with me as I live out my life As I dare to be authentic, in a...
I know it will pass by soon enough.A part of me leaves with you now,an illumination that even my lovewill never quite know the fleeing of,some glows never get to return.Even when ravaged by a familiar continual fury,your voice knew...
"The hopes and fears of all the years, are met in thee tonight"
In the stillness,In the darkness after the midnight hour has struck, When insomnia bites,My mind wanders, of what has been,And then I think of you.My bed half empty,Warm yet cold,Longing for it to be filled by you,Bringing warmth like the summer...
"How the bluebirds came to roost"
There's a bluebird in my heart thatWants to get out, But I'm too tough for him,I say, stay in there, I'm not goingTo let anybody seeYou- Charles Bukowski - When loneliness became a part of meIn such a way that others could not...
"Just a kiss in the moonlight"
It was a cold, gray January day in 1955. Fighting the chill, Tammy pulled her coat tighter. She was only five feet tall, but had just recently turned eighteen. Her shoulder length brown hair pulled back into a ponytail only added...
