Could we just start from zero and add the ones until we equal something better than the sum we left on the table… Tables crashing flatware across the floor, scattered metallic sounds bouncing against the walls of my mind….
By Roleby Colvin5 years ago in Poets
I am not ok… Not in the slightest… I can not fake it anymore… The smiles on my face cracked and worn… Living inside a hell that I myself created,
If there were ever an us, my heart would sing with joy and relief… Fears falling like weighted chains on barren cracked earth,
By Roleby Colvin6 years ago in Poets
Knowledge… Know the ledge from which you leap… I never even caught the edge before I fell. Down deep dark into the twisting nether of whatever world I left behind and created new from false sprung hope…
She is, she was, she is again… Long ago, when I was a young man full of faith, and my urge to delve into all that was Divine was insatiable, I heard a Zen proverb…
I ache for you… The memories of you touched into my skin… It's been so long since I felt the weight of you against me… That touch… That woman… Those dreams…
Where has my confidence gone??? Not just in my waking life, but in the words I used to etch across ink and page? Gone like so much of my false inflated ego….
When did we stop paying attention to the character of someones heart, and instead place more value on the words they choose…