Nineteen years ago, I stood with my high school JROTC class around a massive tire swing during an annual festival, pushing hoards of...

I dream of that beautiful moment, as I walk down the aisle to your arms, but war stands in our way. I dream of a beautiful home filled...

Don't scuff your shoes or trip on your feet. Get your dress! DCID! Pin your hands, tuck them tight. Get in step, dress to your right!...

The last guy I trusted...was drenched in nostalgia, and dripping with first kisses, hurried iloveyous, and unspoken teenage yearning....

You smell like a memory -one I can’t quite place. Though I find myself yearning for the past that’s on your face. Is it written in my...

The worms got their day in the rain in the shade. The sidewalk’s not blistering in heat; not yet encased in all its rage Flimsy little...

He's dangerous like a raging wildfire. Out of control and careless -not in the exciting way. Reckless with my heart, his words, his...

I crave him, like oxygen; selfishly sucking in and back out as if to take it all. Needing all of the best parts. Accepting all the worst....

Cut me back down to size -Just the way you love to. Insult and demolish My essence; my life. A big glass mirror And a Cheshire grin -Your...

So she walks that street, With a bottle of booze, and a bucket of pain. It’s midnight, And her blurry mind can’t see a thing. She didn’t...

You refused to listen, So I carved it, Thirteen streaking times. Blood-striped and still pain-free -Isn't that odd to you? A bottle of...

He’s broken my heart a thousand times since taking that photograph, and he doesn’t even know it. All of the light reflecting from his...

Words of fairytale gravitation coming from the false lips of a god dripping with anticipation; under guise of promises broken far before...

Like parasailing- Floating. Happy. Free. Exhilaration. And then the wind is suddenly gone. All these dreams, these hopes crushed by the...

Marry you. but, only while the sun's asleep and the liquor permeates your brain. Exclamation, to the world -but only within this room, on...

I fell in love with your words. Not the, you’re so pretties or the god you’re hot. I fell for the poetry dripping from your mouth; the...

Heartless ‘cause I feel too much, see too much, break too much. ‘Cause I question intention and soul too much; don’t trust word so much....

Wolves have teeth, as we all know. Behind his scruffy nature and his big, bold eyes lie a million demons; not one of them summoned by...

Drawn down the dreary paths, In dark I’ve always run. Sickness in my sullen heart, A war that’s never won. Constant dread and monsters’...

Overshadowed by your demons, underwhelmed by all I do. I can't be your hero, if I'm always broken too. Never meeting your design; a...