Who are you? I see you most nights Smoking cigarettes, Crosslegged on hard blue chairs Silent Your gaze never lingers long I follow suit...

Realities aside This place within my mind Is perfection in beauty Mountains rise to soar like dragons Standing still, the illusion built...

Here’s to new beginnings And all the old lost winnings We were always born to fall And fade to dust, before it all Sins and lies and...

I am doing what I can To make it through a day Twelve hour shifts through the night With no rest in sight I sleep in a bed polluted With...

Sins of the father Blood on the ground Sins of the mother Blood on her gown We came together without knowing each other I’m sorry, my son...

Sins of the father Despair to all Patriarchy dies on blades of grass With wrist outturned and lined with trickling blood Where once I...

In this shattered city lives a girl Caged by brick and mortar, she is freed by her school Where images she breathes to life And studies...

When you come, sweet boy I can teach you how to read And you can teach me how to write again I whisper this to your mama’s tummy Like a...

Within my head there grows a garden I tend it when I sleep Planting seeds ‘neath the moon And breathing in my plants My garden here...

Dreams elude me Hopes exclude me Lies become me You pollute me Love was all I had to give you And now I pray someone will shiv you I am...

The shaking of your leg reminds me As I lay beside you, in the dark alone The world still turns and burns and runs outside me Empty void...

Did you see it in my eyes? When you strode past And waved A smile and gleaming eyes I broke down inside To think of all the time I wasted...

Will you bleed out in ink, When I begin to write? Or will you laugh like all the rest And say I’m just some drama queen? I’ve slain a...

Blast beats and shredding axes Burn through my rattled brain Flailing drumsticks thrash the heads of drums Guttural growls and falsetto...

My mother asked me why she never sees my smile And all I could do is frown I could never run an uninterrupted mile And I’ll never wear a...

What the hell is wrong with me? Callous and cold That’s what I’ve been told I’ve loved and lied Been high and fried And every failed...

Ding! Ugh… This goddamn thing. Karen wants a strawberry shake. Damn. How much more can I take? Jimbob wants his trucker discount Pssh…...

I’ve been trying to keep tabs on my mind To see where it comes and goes Funny thing, when it catches me watching, It stops in its tracks...

Why does it go on? Is there purpose in this turbulent progression? We talk at each other and never hear a word We shout and threaten and...

In a world where swords can flash from scabbards And rend lives apart From any quarter From Friend and Foe and Family alike When arrows...