To be trustworthy
Means choosing intimacy.
And winning my heart.
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
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.
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.
Haiku of Fear and Blood
05 Sep 2015 Leave a comment
in Poetry Tags: blood, codependency, expectations, family, learning, life, love, self, self worth
The things they teach you:
Don’t cross the low-water bridge.
Live the illusion.
An Ode to Dorian
08 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in Poetry Tags: adult, change, classics, death, dorian gray, dying, growing, haiku, letting go, literature, ode, old, poem, poet, poetry, self esteem, self worth, stagnant, young
The thin skin of time.
Self-deceiving words hold youth?
Root down to grow up.
Luminescence
26 May 2015 Leave a comment
in Poetry Tags: change, faith, grow, haiku, heal, healing, light, love, moving on, poem, poet, poetry, self, self discovery, self esteem, self worth, shadows, star, stars
Fool! I can see you.
Still creeping in your shadows.
I am made of light.
