blakereflected

I cannot sleep The pain leaves me in vain I toss, I turn I sigh, I yearn I think of the end My thoughts don’t pretend I wish I could...

Sobriety is uncertain It is a curtain I wish to keep closed As the song goes One day at a time Sobriety wants to be a friend of mine I...

The past fills me with running thoughts Mistakes I have made, over and over Again and again What keeps me breathing is the love of my...

I hang in a mind that wonders why I should And tells me why I shouldn’t For the people I love I couldn’t For family, for love, I wouldn’t...

The grass breathes as the wind increases And so I lay, on broken pieces Waiting to inhale And exhale, so broken For through my thought,...

Sirens scream loudly In a day so cloudy I can barely see Deafened by my own inner thoughts Overwhelmed by everything Surrounded by...

Lost in translation, watching traffic to and fro Where do I stay Where do I go I listen to music drowned by a bird that hums And so, my...

Sadness seeps through days that never end It stays as years vanish over and over Happiness is a blink I wish it were more than a thought...

Paralyzed Conscience When the world is asleep I am awake When the world is awake I am asleep Dreaming in a state of paralysis I beg to my...

Scattered amongst the stars Is a life that has felt scars Amongst a pain that does persist Is an angel living through the mist In life,...

On Sunday April 1st, 2018, my grandfather, my Popper, sadly passed away. He lived a very long, full life, of 94 years, but towards the...

Steadily you write As ashes hit the paper Awake, though it is late The night has come and so you wait You dreamt tears of sadness A pain...

Is such a poem near or far Are such words laid out like the stars When you breathe do you choke on the choices you make Is it life for...

Kissing to stop time Holding hearts in a night that shines Walking through the vines, touching broken branches Floating above ground,...

A breath lifts birds into flight A breath gives strength to all life The wind carries your body to journey’s end A journey that does not...