Empty bed for two
Empty spot for a kitten
But no one comes home.
Lonely Heart’s Home
25 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in Poetry Tags: choices, cold, denial, disappointment, empty, family, fear, grief, grieving, haiku, heart, home, hurt, loss, love, memories, missing, Nothing, numb, pain, poem, poet, poetry, relationships, remember, silence
Primal Masquerade
30 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in Poetry, Uncategorized Tags: anger, betrayal, change, choices, decisions, denial, fear, haiku, heart, hurt, integrity, intimacy, love, mask, masks, poem, poetry, relationships, self awareness, self esteem, self worth, trauma, trust, truth
To be trustworthy
Means choosing intimacy.
And winning my heart.
Holy Matrimony
12 May 2019 Leave a comment
in Poetry Tags: abuse, anger, betrayal, decisions, denial, disappointment, end, fake, fear, haiku, holy, hurt, husband, integrity, letting go, lies, loss, love, man, marriage, pain, poem, poet, poetry, relationships, self esteem, self worth, silence, trauma, trust, truth, vows, wife
Your need for power
Trumps the vows you spoke to me.
I stand defeated.
Paradigms
07 May 2019 2 Comments
in Poetry Tags: abuse, anger, choices, decisions, denial, expectations, fear, grief, haiku, healing, hope, hurt, integrity, letting go, loss, love, pain, poem, poet, poetry, relationships, self, self awareness, self esteem, self worth, trauma, trust, truth, unconditional love
I’d rather be wrong
And have you say I’m nothing.
You ARE lovable.
Six Months Later…
27 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in Poetry Tags: anger, betrayal, chabad Poway, death, decisions, epidemic, faith, fear, God, grief, haiku, hate, heal, healing, hurt, integrity, jewish, Jewish people, Judaism, life, loss, love, mass shootings, pain, peace, Pittsburgh shooting, poem, poet, poetry, pray, prayer, remember, stop hate, strength, trauma, tree of life synagogue, truth
Did you know their names?
Or are we nothing but goats
Meant to bear your rage?
Ambivalent Heart
26 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in Poetry Tags: ambivalent, anger, betrayal, choices, decisions, forgive, forgiveness, grief, haiku, heal, healing, heart, hope, hurt, integrity, learning, lies, love, man, missing, pain, poem, poet, poetry, relationships, time, trust, truth, unconditional love, woman, women
Still feeling angry.
Still feeling hurt and betrayed.
But damn! I miss you.
Worth the Work
20 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in Poetry Tags: change, choices, decisions, family, forgiveness, friend, grief, haiku, happiness, heal, heart, home, hope, hurt, life, live, loss, love, memories, missing, past, peace, Pixar, poem, poet, poetry, prayer, relationships, remember, road trips, strength, time, truth, unconditional love, up, us
When I remember
I think Pixar and road trips
The things that made Us.
Sacred Vows
20 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in Poetry Tags: decisions, discovery, faith, family, forgiveness, God, haiku, heart, hope, hurt, integrity, jewish, Judaism, life, loss, love, marriage, memories, poem, poet, poetry, prayer, relationships, self esteem, truth, unconditional love, vows
How to convince you
My love for you is so true?
Please hear my prayer.
Of Love and Loss
19 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in Poetry Tags: breakup, change, death, decisions, dying, end, endings, forgiveness, goodbye, grief, grieving, haiku, heal, heart, hurt, letting go, loss, love, memories, missing, poem, poet, poetry, relationships
This feels like a death
Yet each of us is alive.
The grief of the heart.
