Poetry

God Doesn't Love Me

A poem about religious trauma

God doesn't love me

He broke my wings

And threw me down

In a deep dark hole

But bone heals stronger

I'm coming back

To Heaven's gate

To teach God to love

In Water

A poem about trying to save people

We're both tied to bricks

And you ask for a breath

They threw you in

And I jumped in after

We're both sinking fast

And you ask me to pull

I can't imagine worse

Than drowning alone

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King's Games

A poem about being an underpaid worker at a golf resort

Here in this dingy shack

I view a list of names

By night sleep in king's beds

By day play daft king's games

On land that once was wild

And now is flat and green

While cries ring out about me

Like lingering ghosts unseen

You toss a pittance to us

What little you choose to give

While we who keep your castles

Trade our lives to live

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Storm

A poem written in July of 2021, in the wake of the Janurary 6th insurrection

The clouds build their towers high

Like mountains on the horizon

As the moon and stars begin to brighten

In quickly darkening sky

This sound that shatters the night

Is it thunder's sonorous roar,

Or the song of cannons, heralding war

And a brutal end to life?

Storms will always pass, of course

The sky will once again be blue

But what meaning does the sky's azure hue

Have to the eyes of a corpse?

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Threshold in the Mind

A poem about mental barriers

A threshold in the mind

A doorway in the heart

A portal to a world

A gateway to a home

Standing in the gateway

Opening the portal

To go through the doorway

Step over the threshold

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