Unfinished Conversation

Don't you understand it crushes my soul
When you unfinish a conversation?
Like unpainting a bright, new house dark, old
No second thought or deliberation
As to how grand that house felt at one time
With colors and care surrounding its walls
Silence was so comforting and benign
And discussions would never end at all!
But now even my verses on a page
Fall flat onto the ground beneath your sight
Our topics and subjects began to fade
And disappear before my weeping eyes
I really don't know how to replenish
The emptiness left from words unfinished

Special Day

There is nothing special
about today
cloaked in the same
disturbing, usual silence
an invisible emotional violence
has become the weekly play

Back to Green

Go back home
to your lush green
where the spiders crawl
among your web of denial
But remember
You lay next to me
among greener, taller blades
counting cloud shapes
when you used to smile

Short Race

Run boy run
your heart may catch up
with your head
and then you will be alone

Incubus

The only time
you make lately
is just enough time
to tell me confidently
you have none for us

Pretending

I hate pretending
that I don't care for you
when the only thing
consuming my world
is how much I do

Self Destruct

Mysogynist

Self proclaimed
woman hater
hides part of his rib
to avoid
sharing all of himself

Lover

Proven
soul keeper
gives her whole heart
to avoid
losing all of herself