Angel drove me out of my hometown Through wanderlust adventures From nooks in the woods Making bad decisions in her backseat To sleeping in parks and parking garages When I’ve lost myself in a city Through steep hills in the east And valleys in the west Past signs we should have read To avoid driving…
Category: Poetry
Spoiled Milk
I am subtly rotten Like the milk in my fridge yesterday That I had to try three times In order to finally decide it was no good The first sip didn’t seem bad The second was questionable But at the third I was certain It couldn’t be stomached Yes, I am tempting enough to try…
Courage to Sail
Every morning I roll from my bed and face life Like planting my feet on the shores of an ocean And staring out into a blue expanse Vast and mysterious It calls me to venture out and explore Yet I stay here with my toes in the sand Watching the daylight rise and fall upon…
New Day
The sun rises in the distance The world briefly ablaze Arms of red and orange Stretch along the horizon Hugging the Earth’s surface Light greets the morning Ushers in a new day And reminds me that I, too, can restart SWD 05/2019 Updated 03/2020
Self Love
I want to love me So much that I would not be Scared to die alone SWD 06/2019 Updated 03/2020
Tangled Roots
I found myself looking for validation in you Solely basing my self worth on your opinion And you are in no way to blame for that I craved the confidence I felt While standing by your side Or more like clinging to your shoulders You were quite right to leave You had the courage to…
An Island Unto Itself
An island unto Itself, on which I have tried Selfishly to dock SWD 02/2020
Spaceship
We often joked about dying Together in a spaceship Blasting off above clouds That looked like cotton fields Toward the woman in the sky We both fell in love with And wrapping up our wanderlust-filled adventures With the most exciting one of them all Our eyes have cherished the moon At her most brilliant moments…
Beer and Lavender
She tastes of beer and Lavender, of which my lips Cannot get enough SWD 02/2020
