To me my sweetheart you are a moment of bliss,
You are true perfection sealed in a kiss,
The epitome of love enchanted and refined,
I adore your soul, heart, body, spirit and mind.

Your spiritual essence is of idealisms fire,
And effortless grace of such subliminal desire,
Evoking such wonder through the starlight in your eyes,
Of such majestic pride and courage from deep inside.

I am heading down a road

From which there is no return

I feel the night as it approaches

As my mind, it starts to burn

Temptation pulls me to the side

Its attraction it is so strong

The lure is more powerful

Ever since you have been gone

I feel the disappointment inside

It cuts me like a knife to the bone

I cannot rise up above it anymore

It will just not leave me alone

This road is a very desolate long one

And I know that one day it must end

When the pain and sorrow overwhelm me

The moments before I boarded the Greyhound bus,
I did not know those would be the most precious.
The last time I would hold my father’s hand,
Or hear my name across a Walmart floor.

When the door closed my aunt’s prayers carried me through.
I did not know I would lose more than one
each year,
My surrogate mothers would up and just disappear.

At each stop I was losing more than the miles from which I started.
Shedding the cocoon that nestled and nurtured me.
Seasons became colder and Christmas seemed farther away.

Though weary cracks may appear,
and like burning coals they start to sear.
Acutely twisting the knife, that little bit more,
All intending to settle my moody score.

Designed to open up scars that are so deep,
They bring forth tears, that see me weep.
As well as creating a cloud that fogs my mind,
In a multitude of ways, so cruel and unkind.

And try as I may, to find a way,
To escape this madness, and live day to day.
Struggling to push these feelings out, all the while,
I try to paint on a fakery kind of smile.