POETRY
Living expressions of inner work. Offered as a glimpse of the process towards radical self-acceptance, healing, and growth.
Without
Without hope
My inner compass breaks
Without faith
I can’t find it
Without love
I don’t have anywhere to go
This poem is from the book A Requiem For What Could Have Been: Poetry For The Broken
Those Few Words
Those few words
Gave voice
To the silence
I always knew
Was there
This poem is from the book A Requiem For What Could Have Been: Poetry For The Broken
The Love That’s Real
The love I feel
So impossibly real
The love that’s real
So impossible to feel
A point of reality
Against a bleak totality
A bleak totality
Devoid of reality
A pinprick of light
That illuminates the night
A dark night
Pricked with terror and flight
A whispered prayer
Promising a truth and a dare
A violent glare
Promising pain and a scare
A look and a touch
That’s never too much
A look and a touch
That’s always too much
A lifetime together
Souls entwined forever
A lifetime together
Souls enmeshed forever
This poem is from the book A Requiem For What Could Have Been: Poetry For The Broken
They See
I get more solace
In a day
From strangers online
Than you’ve given me
In a lifetime
They ask
They listen
They see
You just speak
Holding me
To higher standards
Than you hold yourself
Judging me
For acting
How you act
Hating me
For being
Who I am
This poem is from the book A Requiem For What Could Have Been: Poetry For The Broken
The Devil Speaks
The devil speaks
With the voice
Of those
I love
Whispering
Half truths
Whispering
Lies
I cannot
Always
Tell
Them apart
So
I hurt
The very people
I wanted to save
This poem is from the book A Requiem For What Could Have Been: Poetry For The Broken
Silence
And just like that
The silence
Was broken
This poem is from the book A Requiem For What Could Have Been: Poetry For The Broken
Mere Thought
Isn’t it fascinating
Just how much
A mere thought
Can derail
An otherwise perfect day?
This poem is from the book A Requiem For What Could Have Been: Poetry For The Broken
Running
I’ve been running
For so long
That I’ve forgotten
What scared me
In the first place
This poem is from the book A Requiem For What Could Have Been: Poetry For The Broken
Questions
How
Can I mourn
The person
You didn’t allow me
To become?
Why
Do I
Keep believing
You’d want
To help me?
What
Would it take
To show you
That
I am
More lost
Than ever?
When
Will I feel
The love
You say
You have
For me?
Where
Are you
Now that you’ve
Left
Your marks
All over me?
Who
Am I
To deserve
These questions
Answered?
This poem is from the book A Requiem For What Could Have Been: Poetry For The Broken
Need
I can’t tell you
What I need
Because what I need
Is for you
To know
Without needing to be told
This poem is from the book A Requiem For What Could Have Been: Poetry For The Broken