My Vow
Passion drives forward
A crucial cause
Lives seeking desperately
Lacking unfettered voices
Shadows striking fear
Evil permeates ubiquitously
Social acceptance dominates
Victims always to blame
A war on collective attitudes
Combating for stories untold
Painfully supportive
Surviving by way of dying
Struggle exists continuously
Volcanic determinations brew
Indomitable spirit awakens
Fighting soulfully for victory
His Peace
I see him asleep
His eyes are so still
He looks so peaceful
And from now on, he always will.
Lying in his box
He does not budge
I keep wondering why
They just say “because”
In my hand
Is a flower that I hold
I gently give it to him
It will someday mold.
As I kiss him goodbye
My lips begin to quiver
The feeling of his icy cold flesh
Makes my whole body shiver.
Somehow I begin to understand
Why my eyes have turned to red
The tears never seem to stop
Now that I know he is dead.
In loving memory of Andrew Haller
Desecrated
Ever present memories
Permanent mental changes
Emotional reactions
Visions remembered perfectly
Women separate into two groups
Pure ones of choice
Violated ones with painful pasts
I was pure, but no longer
Forever I will remain
Desecrated prematurely
No choice received
Rescuers are fantasies
Separation divides me
Childhood of innocence and happiness
Faithful girl of naivety
A woman drenched in reality
Lost by confused identity
One moment to change someone completely
Romanticism
Black stiffness lies down
Touching against your soft flesh
Connected with stark interest
Yet never close to my most desired possession
My hand falls down
No longer feeling apart of you
Separation grows deeper
My sight searches out farther
Your hindered walk breaks me down
Hesitation but no stopping
I retreat to my world
Alone with feelings mourned
My heart is eaten away
Practical responses infiltrate
Evolution forgot to incorporate love
Romanticism disowns truth
My screams bring the house down
Lying in isolation
Reality kills the hope that makes me breath
The depth of my love, you cannot perceive
My strength that scares you
Dies with your absence
The coldest nights call out
Wet spots cover the soft comfort below my head
Enlightened Tree
Soft flesh rubs delicately against the course body
Two arms of stiff stillness
Grasped by two small sensibilities
Bodies meet for the first time
One is motionless
The other slides with dying urgent willfulness
The threshold is surmounted
The fragile being enters a strong core
Reaching power extends from all sides
Sitting comfortable, she yearns for more
Eager hands stretch along the thin spikes
No previous touches
No polished down roughness
Her softness is easily cut
Blood permeates her innocent skin
The damaged body lays limply over an edge
Her upright head stares into the sky
Rushing, incautious wind strikes the uppermost peaks
No attention to its vast ability
Crisp air witnessing her dying hopes
Light illuminates from afar
The large estranged vapors dissipate
Strength transcends
Moonlight slowly approaches her crestfallen face
The enlightenment of her path
Innocence
Freedom beacons in the night
Someday you will be able to stand up and fight
I can hear the silent dripping of your tear
Along with the subtle tremble from your fear
You ask “why” and I cannot answer
This disease is worse than any cancer
Greed in the cause of our disaster
I just wish it wouldn’t spread any faster
I can feel their sadness and their pain
But no one seems to be able to explain
It’s the innocence that I cry for
I wish I wouldn’t have to cry anymore
I wanted to save you, but I was too late
You were already on someone’s dinner plate
Can I stop that lonely tear my friend?
Will this world ever mend?
I will not give up this fight for you
Our friendship will forever be true
Animals will one day be free,
You wait and see
Beyond the Stars:
The National Library of Poetry, 1995
