Sometimes I have a hard time telling the truth. Actually I think it’s more of a problem saying it. For four very long years I hardly ever told the truth. It was the only way to keep peace in our house. I think the biggest lie I ever told was “I love you.” I did, but not in the way he wanted me to. The rest of it was little lies, shadings of the truth if you will. “Yes, of course I’m happy with you, yes we have a good marriage” kind of lies. Continue reading “To Tell The Truth”
He saw her through a smoky room, just her back and heard her laugh. He wanted to see her face and smile and wondered if it would affect him the way her laugh did. Every time he heard it a chill would run down his spine and he absently shook his head as if to clear it. It wasn’t helping.
She stood leaning against the balcony and her hair spilled over the edge. An animated talker, her hands waving back and forth till he could almost imagine what she was talking about. Someone called out from the dance floor and she turned, and as her face came into full view, his breath caught in his throat. Continue reading “May I have this dance?”
Cats sit on the fence
Yowling their pain
To a desolate sky
Wolves in the distance
Add their horrified cry
Police lights flash
As cars go by
And the city lights flicker
To the watching naked eye
An empty heartbeat echoes
Down a dark alleyway
Nightlife passes by
But misses the cry
Unseen and worn out
A hand reaches forth
For someone to see
But lost in the darkness
In the cracks, ignored
Brushes away a tear
Tears away from the pain
And forsaken by all
Slips into the darkness
Unknown, unheard, unwanted
It’s raining on Valentine’s day
My heart lies breaking
True love’s bliss flying away
No matter the love
I poured with my soul
The pitcher overflows
But the cup has a hole
No patchwork could repair
What was cracked
Lays shattered
My heart lies broken
And the rain comes down
On the parade I thought to have
