Noise

Noise is everywhere I want to be free of it my heart wants a cabin in the woods an ideal escape Daily life doesn’t allow me escape from the noise I can only escape into something into words into pictures into a bed into my own thoughts I yearn for quiet for solitude but when……

Names

Is emptiness a kind of pain when it doesn’t sting it doesn’t bite but it clamps your soul with toothless gums. Is sadness real when you never shed a tear you don’t mourn but instead it cuts off circulation restricting the flow of the blood of life. Is darkness really dark when everyone else can……

Listen

You tell me what’s on your mind I try to listen but all I can hear is my mind afraid you’ll stop talking and I won’t know what to say. You tell me things they’re hard to hear and I can tell by your eyes the quaver in your voice these things are hard to……