Twirling heads,
Shuffling feet —
Willing and enthusiastic.
Slaves to a current,
The captivating
Dance electric

You raised a question
I thought I'd
Never ask —
Why do I
Even bother.

Like a willow —
Cut bare
I will only
Grow stronger.

Breathe in and drown.
Breathe not and suffocate.
Breathe out and surface.

Emotion and pain
Are indicators —
Not levers.

Do not despair —
There are still
Whole chapters
Unread.

Full disclosure,
Love it
Or hate it —
Be honest.
I'm a big boy,
I can take it.

I won't fear
Words that hurt
When even bones heal.

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.