Truth-telling moon, brightly burn my eyesAs you gaze into my room and my bedLooking for someone who shouldn’t be spiedIn my sheets, in my house, even my life. Look each place you please. Make everything bright,The sun has already look’d at my head.You will never find a trace of that knight.No matter the dreams that…
Trying to pack dizzy and drunk, There was a screaming child And I couldn’t say stop. She screamed and cried and said that "he lied." And I woke with a start and wondered...
When I picked up your clothes from the store andSent out your sister’s birthday presents andMade the cards for every occasion andFound the best school for dyslexia and Drove to the pharmacy for the pills andPhotoshopped everything you needed andReserved the best table on Sundays andPreserved it all in photos and emailWith custom place settings and…
Tell me how I’ve offended you clearly Describe to me what the row is about Explain exactly why you look at me And scowl at my face with eyes cast down. If offense is the score you are keeping I am assuredly in your family’s debt Can we lay all our cards on the table?…
I’m sorry I’m trying. I’m sorry, I’m trying. I’m sorry. I’m trying. I’m so sorry. I’m trying.
You are the omnipresent predictable force Who has shined on me For forty years. Helping me grow Making me bright Making me see the light in me And the world And a little girl. But today, Something came between us my sky darkened And got cold And I felt old. It will happen again And again.
I am so grateful That I understand the math and science Well enough To know that god has not blotted out the sun. And I understand math and science and mystery enough To know That God has blotted out the sun.
Forty days and five years ago, you said dunsinane would never come to Birnam and a good woman born of a good family would live the life I wanted. you tried to save me from my fate with tragic truth. like a wild-eyed prophet eating honey and locusts, you tried to give me five years…
Someday I will write All the right words That say here What you want to hear illuminating a new thought Though you cannot see. The ocean between us Will shallow And our complicated problems Will become complex With the right words In the right order With the right intonation And intention Materialize as an incantation …
There are things you want to forget like that night you fell and broke your arm, and it broke my heart to know all the harm that had been caused by a simple fall, but you want to remember the love the love of it all. There are things you want to forget like that…
