Stayed Anyway

I knew enough to leave.

I stayed.

Not because i couldn't go,

But because leaving..

would force me to admit,

I had been wrong for months!

The Little War

Sleep sits softly upon her eyes,

But this tiny soldier,

refuses to ceasefire.

She yawns like surrender,

then clenches her fists.

As though dreams are a debt

she...

A River's Kindness

There is a strange kind of wealth

that never once touched my wallet first.

It arrived disguised as survival.

As Tuesdays endured.

As prayers that sounded like negotiations.<...

Butterflies

The Butterflies in my stomach

has my mind in strings

reeling me in with a fish rod

The Butterflies in my stomach

has my body in strings

making me dance like...

Midget Man

I wonder why,

Midget men

are disliked with venom.

is it that they

Overcompensate?

is it that they

lash out at ant hills

and aura disappears?