Someone

Someone stopped the tears tonight
of a seven years old's anxious fears
He cared enough
to easily shed
the tough facade
that most adolescents wear
just to complement my son
Gimme five for that cool costume!
he said with a warm and friendly grin:
and I watched my son's confidence
slowly filter into a smile
Down on my knees
Next to my sleeping child,
replaying the scene
in his peaceful dreams
I added Someone to my prayers
asking God to watch over him
because only God knows who he is

Bars

I watch her make the home that we should warm
Your kitchen smells of meals that I would bake
And when she lies there safe inside your arms
My God! My God!  It's just too much to take!
I toss and turn in sleepless prose again
The letters she did write to you before
They haunt me now because this is the end
And I elect to stand outside your door
The irony has caught up with my mind
Periphery now leaves me without view
My sleepless nights are bleeding into rhyme
But fail to bring me close enough to you
My senses will form bars around my heart
Keeping our two distant worlds apart

Depleted

The air in my tires
has slowly depleted
And this morning,
I could hear the rubber squealing
as my car rounded a curve
to leave the highway
The screech prompted me to
turn around and find a place
to fill them up again
I sat idling for too long
among numerous others
who were there before me
so I gave up
Listening to the radio
a prisoner of the same song
I put the gear in reverse
and headed back home
Walking inside
alone again
the smell of black crayon
melted from extreme heat
echoed the sound
of tires wearing thin;
my patience disappearing
like elevating wheels
on a distant tarmac

Comments

Of course it makes you stop and think! You turn
those lost, missing seconds of ours into
constant arguments unresolved. So learn
when someone brings a different song for you;
Remember where your past time was once spent?
And where your tender heart once rested? Now
so rare and inconvenient. Repent,
return, then reiterate that somehow
it will be so much better than before.
A few days in partial silence, then time
rewinds the sincere words that gave us more.

Time to temporarily heal our scars
permanently unrates our love five stars

29th Wonder

Tonight I held the baby
so innocent and pure
like the love from which he was created
when we were so sure
that adversity and impossibility
would never endure
once we finally passed the place
where we felt so insecure...

and I wondered where you were.

Blue Steel

You know that I'm here
waiting for a sign
some flash of light
or a familiar chime
But the marker stains red
inside of your hand
and you draw another line
inside of your head
Some asinine rule
will keep you at bay
Though I've fought in the past
I won't beg you to stay
This place tonight smells
of blue steel and glue
I've discovered conditional
I have learned it from you
Those thoughts that I shared
do you understand why
I've failed to open your trust
so this love has gone awry
There's a surface, then a floor
and even beneath your tile
there's an abyss swirling and churning
that you won't reconcile
Alone chooses me
where another world comforts you
But you read silently
as if something to prove
My darkened eyes
hold their empty stare
I've reached that low point
where I don't even care
Accepting the reality you sell
that we are too far apart
While your son nurses from the breast 
which shields my broken heart

Inconsistency

How does your laughter subside so quickly
Is there some magic poison in the night?
Killing your beautiful smile swiftly
Dimming my hope like a broken light

My words get lost in your mood's translation
Electronic blunders become the norm
Overseen by my miscalculation
I risk exposure in your coming storm

How does yesterday cross with tomorrow
When twenty four hours brings confusion?
Where do I conquer that prolonged sorrow
If flipping the switch is your solution?

The futile part of our love is simply
Our constant lies in inconsistency