Your need for power
Trumps the vows you spoke to me.
I stand defeated.
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
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.
My Box
23 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in Poetry Tags: anger, attraction, box, change, choices, decisions, discovery, faith, fear, Freedom, haiku, happiness, heal, healing, heart, hope, integrity, life, live, love, man, me, Pandora, Pandora’s box, poem, poet, poetry, relationships, self discovery, self esteem, self worth, sex, sexuality, soul, strength, trust, truth, unconditional love, woman, women
Just like Pandora,
Opening my box won’t kill you.
Years should’ve proved that.
Hide and see me
28 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in Poetry, Uncategorized Tags: gone, haiku, hurt, invisible, loss, love, man, never there, poem, poet, poetry
Invisible man,
Just like any other man
Only never there.
Proverbs 3:13
23 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in Poetry Tags: abuse, bible, domestic violence, haiku, happy, heal, healing, man, men, poem, poet, poetry, rape, self love, sexual assault, survivor, women
Happy is the man,
Who confesses to his crimes.
Wear what you have done.
Flowers for Johnny
27 May 2015 Leave a comment
in Poetry Tags: boy, decisions, fate, flower, flowers, Genius, growing, haiku, jail, kids, life, man, poem, poet, poety, potential, prison, smart, too smart, trouble, word, words
John “Fucking” Flowers!
Now, that’s what a man should be!!
Genius and jail bound.
Jekyll and Haiku
24 Oct 2014 Leave a comment
in Poetry Tags: anger, haiku, hurt, loss, love, man, mental health, poem, poetry, prayer, two faces
You started a man,
But a monster you became.
I pray for the man.
Man or Mirage
12 Oct 2014 Leave a comment
in Poetry Tags: haiku, hurt, lies, loss, love, man, mirage, poem, poetry, truth
I can’t remember
What was true and what was you.
Fata Morgana.
Forbidden Haiku
08 Oct 2014 Leave a comment
in Poetry Tags: forbidden, haiku, love, lust, man, poem, poetry, sex, sexuality, sin, thank you, woman
You, my sinful one!
Who loved me as a Woman…
I never thanked you.
The Fall of (Wo)Man
26 Aug 2014 Leave a comment
in Poetry Tags: bible, equality, gender, God, hurt, love, man, poem, poetry, self, woman, women
What are you, Weak One?
You whose insides drip out of you like shame.
Whose worth is not marked by quality of character, but by the amount of produce seeded in your belly.
Does your existence only matter when there is fruit within your womb?
What are you?
Are you more than just a mere rib set aside to provide companionship?
To provide comfort?
Can you stand mightier than kings?
Divinely as gods?
You whose frame and feature is compared so often to that of a delicate flower.
What are you, Empty Strength?
You whose so numb, you couldn’t tell a winter wind from a knife in the back.
You who pleads in silence for a safe place to cry.
But instead follows the fold in a parade of rage.
What are you?
Are you more than just a pile of dust molded into a play thing for a fickle father?
A forever-child searching always for his abandoning mother?
You whose pride is more valuable than the opportunity to connect.
The opportunity to be human.
What are you?…
What are we?
