• You Hurt Me

    You don’t know how to help me, so you don’t try. I tell you how to help me, so you don’t help me. I tell you how upset I am, so you upset me more. I tell you that I slur my words, so you punish me. I tell you I need you to listen,…

  • Remembering Rudy

    Bonk! The mouse smashes the massive hammer on the cat’s head, his face flattened into the ground. Skeeeeeeeeeer Pop! He peels his head off the ground and it pops back into shape.      I chuckle. I’ve watched cartoons for as long as I can remember. When I was a boy, they were black and white on…

  • Mind over Matter

    A boy sleeps upon a bed of nails That gently caresses his skin. No punctures and not a scratch  But he dreams of chagrin. There was a man at the market  Who gave this bed for free. He said it would only work With faith as the key. But like Peter walking on water, He…

  • Escape

    With tears of anguish, but solum actions, Searching for a soul escape. Is this the answer, the reason why, for  planning out a whole escape? Could this be deeper, and lost in confusion, Or simply the easier way? For all the dark times, when you couldn’t hide, But run, run, run to escape. Is there…

  • Night and Day

    Once upon a time, We lived in the dark, Unaware of the Journey, We would soon embark. Our hearts lived alone, Drowning in the fear, That one day the end, Would be drawing near. Just when we lost faith, And could no longer cope, We found each other, And with it a  hope. A hope…