Poetry · Writing

a magic wand

i want

and that’s okay.

to behave

to learn

to wash

they teach, never to want.

i remember

a girl running in the park

only paper taped to a stick,

but her smile, something like;

a poor man winning the lottery

a musicians first time on stage

winning an academy award, while remembering your time jumping from couch to couch, eating scraps and wearing your sister’s husbands four year old shirt with a hole in the right shoulder – wearing your graduation suit, your parents last gift to you, two sizes too big, to every audition, to every job interview, to every date.

her smile, like nothing in this world, could make her happier- i want

that

Poetry · Writing

your song

this dream-

the one that calls me in the morning

eats with me at lunch

and crawls into my sheets every night-

i remember our first dance

to Maroon 5 in a gym

now we slow dance to Elton John

i miss my wife

but this life

swipes my throat like a pup’s belly.

treasure;

Poetry · Writing

shot in the dark

sharing everything i have ever wanted,

not a long list,

on a posted note

hidden in my favorite book.

i remember those cold eyes,

the ones that couldn’t understand

the ones that could never understand,

it’s why they are hidden-

it’s a shot in the dark

but it is mine

carved this hole in the world for me

you can come

just know

i might never come out