(2013)
There’s a voice deep inside getting stronger every day. I cannot deny the message these urgent words proclaim. Why bother?
Your unexpected words of kindness fell upon this desert dweller’s arid heart
It seems the only way to reach the mountain-top, is through the desert wasteland. It is only there that one might come to learn
I was addressed today in the secret silent language that everyone knows; except for me. It was assumed I’d know exactly
Late at night; another helter-skelter day, having flown off unexpectedly into alien domains of disarray. So many urgent moments
I am awash with tears of mourning for what I thought was dead and go… as though a flood of holy water has broken through the stony dam I contrived to spare this brittle…
Something whispers, certainly not nothing. A subtle impetus to choose to stir and rise
I’ve been so afraid to speak these heartfelt words. This secret has been kept so well, from myself, by myself,
I am that scruffy urchin trembling in the winter chill, with hungry eyes as wide as your fancy dinner plate, staring with an empty longing
Sweet Mary Jane bade me follow where she led. I went eagerly. She was my life’s one true love. All the others,
I am your greatest grandmother calling softly on the ocean winds. I was never lost to you forever, only swallowed by the other half o… Come down with me to the quiet pla…
My father has come to dinner; He does not knock. He is not welcome. He is dead. Yet he insists on joining me
Forgiveness? Not on your life. My life was stolen from me. For what?
He’s been around the block and even toured the world, with scars upon scars to show from many a hard-fought battle. Yet like many old dogs
Come out, come out, wherever you are. I know you’re in here. You dirty little secret.