April Showers

I Live

I live in fantasy

And dreaming,

With which no reality

Can compete. 

My reality a shell

Of what if and if only...

Feet buried in the sand

Head in clouds

Time to meet in the middle

Real world life.

Silence

Silence or evasion

Lies large and small 

Does a white lie 

To keep from hurting someone matter?

Why will go unanswered

In that loud emptiness

One heart not growing fonder 

As absence shows little heart at all

By it's wrenching silence

Alone

Alone on a bench in peace and calm

The twitterings of song birds

And gently moving water

A breeze blows my hair softly across my cheek

Like the gentle touch of a lover saying goodbye

It has gotten cold and time to move on.

Suffer the Night 
(In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month)

On a cloudless night, 

It rains 

Warm salty trickles

Slide down cheeks to lips

A heart filled with sorrow

The mind tries to accept 

Depression

And the inertia it brings

A struggle to sleep

A struggle to wake

With the morning, suffering inside

While smiles and laughter 

For a public face.