I'm so blessed
That in an ocean, saturated
With the heart's blood
Of a billion poets
You choose to drown
In mine.

Stuck in a prologue,
Once upon desire —
Afraid to lose
What we don't have
We dream the lives
Of paths not taken.

My flaws include
Some of my
Best features.

On route to happiness,
Seek companions —
Not passengers.

Do not
Get stuck on loss —
Life, like love and beauty
Is too fleeting.

A necessary evil,
An undesired taste.
Welcomed like a dark cloud
In a heatwave —
Reluctant and temporary.

This dark momentum,
The forward rage we ride
Started out a breeze,
A mere soothing
Wind of change —
Back in the long-forgotten
Age of innocence.

Impulse-induced
Soul-ignition,
Revel in unbound addiction —
Feed the flame
Until but ash remains.

One should not
Sell the cow
To buy
A cheese.

Even the brave
Blindly plummet
Into depths
Where only
Darkness lies.

When Absence
Called the space between,
Only Echo answered.
"It's like I am
Not even here."
Even here.
Hear.

What has been
Seen, heard, or felt,
Will never fully vanish.

Villain
Is a
Viewpoint.

My rubber soul —
Hit me
With all you have
And I'll happily
Bounce along.

The more practiced,
The less genuine.

Choose
Your own
Misery.

Emotion, bleeding.
Words unspoken.
Silent melodies of love,
Repeating,
Until the heart
Gives in — or out.

But one lesson
Is worth learning —
There are none.

Not all roses are red,
Not all violets are blue.
Not all clichés
Are in poor taste,
When properly used.

Happy —
Despite myself