Lord Death
He comes to me in the middle of the night,the room enclosed in darkness;once again, he brings chaos with him.There’s not a fibre of light or warmth,yet his pale skin brightens the darkand his cloak of black whirls,the formless cape creating slithering tendrilsgrasping over my arms, pulling me closer.His icy breath forms frost on my […]
Beloved Grandmother
A mother’s name drifts away the windslipping through my fingers in the breeze,impossible to catch and hold oneven as I grasp onto the strings.I cry out, oh it’s so loud,the wailing around me and in my head.a brother can’t catch his breath,I tell him, take one in, and then release.But I can’t seem to catch […]
I Say Goodbye
It is time to give it up; let it go and let it blow with the wind off into the distance, across the plains, and into the mountains until it seizes to be—carried away by the whisper of the wind until its remnants can be heard no longer. It is a thing that does not […]
I don’t want it anymore
I don’t pray anymore.I used to believe in the Father—my father that passed in the past—and then I believed in heaven,a hopeful cloud that didn’t last.I played a faithless symphony coldpraying to the god of death,now I don’t believe in anything at all,only one being, being myself. I was born as a parent;I don’t want […]
the way life goes
It’s just the way life goes… My heart is crying for a better day and a better night where I can see your smile light up your eyes, without wondering if it’ll be the last time. My soul is praying for a longer while where I don’t have to wonder if you’ll live or die, […]
the girl in you sees the girl in me
She met me on a bridge, the only one left untouched by fire. I looked into her ember-lit eyes, at the soot smudged on her face, at the ash in the crevices of her hands, in the cracks of her smile, and underneath her fingernails. Scars lined her body; burn marks forged in flame and […]