Hunger blinds —
Trampling the caution line
Between instinct and desire.

Dip into your soul,
Illuminate the ashen sky
With specks of hope —
Brighten your horizons.

Stop agonizing over
Glasses half empty,
While the barrel's still
Mostly full.

Streets change —
Walk on,
Or change along.

Such irony —
This need to
Convince ourselves
That we are are not
Always right.

Without acceptance
There can be
No authority.

Lengthening days,
Dawn wakes before I do —
Dreams flee long before
I blink into the morning light.

Ignoring all
Outside our scope
We suffer our rejections.

Laminate your lack of plan,
Paint all warnings yellow —
Fortune favors those
Who think they can.

Traveling her deranged ways,
My threads of sanity untangled —
Loving her
Made a mess of me.

Identity —
Not circumstance,
But who we are
Despite.

Remedial compliments,
Life-changing kindness —
Prove to the disheartened
That no one is unlikable.

To know
All possibilities,
First discharge
Your negativity.

External problems
On our path
Often only seem
Remote.

Absence is
An exit wound.

On the right side
Of wrong —
Stay pesky.

Glass tears
In oceans, clear —
Watching me,
Still, but see
Yourself reflected,
Not my pain.

Having recorded
My thoughts,
I can say
I have my moments.

You rebels out there,
Remember —
Changing the rules
Is still
Playing the game.

If only my actions
Spoke equal wisdom
As my words.