Pride

What is it to see
When you don’t believe.
In a world of touch and feel
It is difficult to conceal.
Love is pure
To all God’s creatures,
Except the insecure.
For a month, we are featured
The rest of the time
Just remember not to say
those three letters of sin: g a y 

Hide your kids!
Hide your wife!
How can we rid?
How can we fix
This way of life?
Ban unnatural books!
Censor pics and flicks!
Look at what they took!
Preserve normality!
What even is marriage equality?

We’ll continue to fight
For a simple human right.
Love is our guiding light.
Stifled in the dark,
Volatile when kept inside.
This is our journey to embark.
This is why we take pride.

Climb On

Could it ever be?
Maybe climbing ladders
Wasn’t meant for people like me.
The only thing sadder
than a life riddled in repeat,
Is one depleted of dreams.
So, climb on and on and on…
Climb until your fingers bleed!
If you fall, let it be.
Get up and grip each rung.
Higher and higher and higher…
Until you can reach the sun
Or look at the face of failure
And laugh at those who made fun.
A life worth dreaming
Is a life worth living.
So, climb on.

American Dream

Tired eyes
Unrelenting baby cries
A future worth a fight
Ever so bright
The night is long
For reasons of the wrong

Aching head
Separate beds
Absence of passion
A dwindling ration
The night is long
Our new love song

Insurmountable expenses
Build fences
Impossible to escape
Economic rape
The night is long
At the bottom rung 

Aging out of existence
with little resistance
Desperate for interaction
In this social faction
The night is long
When you don’t belong

Tired eyes
Will anyone cry
Nothing to fear
The end is near
The night is long
But not long enough

Unfinished

I’m not done…
Rot can spread,
Rot can kill.
Biological warfare has begun…
Everything, I can feel.
Body is tired.
Muscles weak,
Bones on fire.
Yet, mind is sharp.
How can this be?
Eyes have plenty to see,
More food to eat,
More souls to meet.
I’m not done…

Plenty to see,
More souls to meet.
I’m not done!
I’m not done!
I’m not done!

A trade, perhaps?
Grams of bone,
Locks of hair?
Please don’t let me die alone.
How is that fair?
I’m not done!

Desperately want sleep.
Can’t eat.
What else is there to feel
When there’s nothing left to kill?
In the last round
Maybe it’s time to lie down.


This light I will keep…
More Souls to meet.
More souls to meet…
This light I will keep.

I’m ready now.

Sunrise, Sunset

Today the sun rose,
And the sun set.
Bed cold,
Eyes wet.
Who could've foretold?
Who could've bet?
Days apart
Could drain
The heart.

Today the sun rose,
And the sun set.
You're still the handsomest man
I've ever met.
From your nose
To your toes.
A tender heart,
A shining soul.
That smile,
I'll never forget.

Today the sun rose,
And the sun set.
I found an old shirt
That held your scent.
Not long ago
We met in flirt.
Now, who can stitch and sew
Away this hurt?

Today the sun rose,
And the sun set.
Counting the light
In the canvas night.
Even though far,
Even though wide,
I could see your star.
I could feel you fly.

Today the sun rose.
Cold, and in a froze,
I did not.
Taking flight,
Only one thought;
Only one whom I sought…
The smile I never forgot.

Today the sun did not set.
It shined,
And shined.
For again, we met.
Never to part.
Forever in flight.
Forever entwined.
Once more,
Everything was right.

Silhouette

Emulation in the finest form.
On the worst days (most days),
the one and only true friend.
Until it follows the sun’s rays,
disappearing once again.

Alone to fend
The relentless demons (who always stay)
burrowing deeper
And deeper inside.
Some nights
There’s nowhere to hide.
Some nights
Miraculously transition to light.

Oh, one and only true friend,
What will this night bring?
Will you ever be seen again?
As the birds and trees sing?

Oh, one and only true friend
Don’t let this be the end.