January 4, 2015

Take care of yourself


Like a baby I watched you grow And though it’s hard to say I think you know Take care of yourself when I’m not around I really meant it When I said that the moonlight Shines in your eyes And though space threatens to Estrange us With me you’ll never be A stranger Take care […]

December 23, 2014

For our mother


I get teary eyed in just reading your name It’s unbelievable that some look at you with disdain When your beauty was the light of his eye When you are the one who carried his words on your tongue And his honor in your breath Through you he never left With you was his final […]

November 15, 2014

Without innocence…


Without innocence there is no beauty Without you there is no me Drowning in sorrow is the only way To seek Damaged and war torn The only war To be With nothing left There is only you I see

May 22, 2014

On Images


People are concerned I am concerned For our children The images they watch The broken families they are shifted between The pasted eyes on the TV screen The pre-marital sex they’re encouraged to engaged in Telling them to be safe with objects between them But who will account for the pain they live in?

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