drowning,
its hard to come up for air
when your wings
are made of stone.
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secrets
clouds gather ‘round
packaged secrets in a prayer.
pulling at the seams
& searching for signs
of temptation or salvation,
they find a heart already sinned.
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people
having been loved
by people with broken arms,
created in him an innate way
of letting people go easily.
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mistakes
thinking i was
only defined by my mistakes,
i forgot to connect the dots
that draw the dawn
and end the night.
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old
its harder now
to turn the pages of my life,
but there’s a flicker of hope
from shadows holding on to a hotel light
that give me peace on these empty roads.
it’s the possibility,
that love,
may still be more than
an old book in this cold room.
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dice
dirty love,
a roll of the dice,
a clean shirt on
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really
they built flimsy walls
with cardboard boxes
filled with half of what they felt,
in hopes of protecting
all they really wanted.
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fumble
walking over chalk drawn sidewalks,
he fumbled through my pockets of
hopscotch decisions looking for answers.
instead, he found handfuls of
question marks on top of his periods.
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asked
he never asked for this
as his dad mocked him on the sidewalk
talking loud and ugly without words
for his behaviors and interests,
the dad knew …
the true meaning
of what his dads gestures meant
about him were unknown at the time
but, the child knew …
so he lived a life
feeling small, ashamed, unaccepted, alone
and never good enough inside …
the gay son knew …
he never asked for this life.
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robes
standing on the scaffolding
that surrounds his heart,
he paint the mistakes he made
in robes of ancient white..
wearing sneakers in the snow.
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Unfinished Souls 