I've got the Cipro in my ear
When she finally asks for help

So I move the furniture around
With my head cocked to the side

But it's not far enough
And they don't stay put

The ear drops are like tear drops
Rolling along the curve of my jaw

And the paper rips in half
When I use it to wipe them away

p.s. is there a way to post entries to your ( Read more... )

Every swaying shadow I see
Every twitch and rustle I hear
Makes me swirl around, expectantly
But nevermore will you be there

Grief
wells up from my core;
swarming around my lungs,
squeezing through my throat,
and bursting out my mouth and eyes
in a flood of sobs and tears.

these sounds squeaking past Grief
are not my own,
the desperate attempts to intake
a portion of the air
that Grief explodes out of me.
this ache is physical ( Read more... )

what do you do

when the one thing
that meant everything

is gone?

when reality can't be true

and you're lost and lonely
unable to understand

why things had to go this way?

pleading, praying, screaming at God
and it changes nothing

how do you live

when what once defined you
once made you whole

no longer exists?

A work in progress:

The doctor here in Florida
In the clinic across the street
From the hotel I'm staying in
Doesn't seem to know exactly what is going on.
But he makes it sound like
Long-term damage is happening to my ears.
Repeated cases of severe outer-ear infections ( Read more... )

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Last night at a party,
With music blaring from the speakers on a bookshelf
And conversation from the small crowd of people
Filling the background,
My friend tells me he likes me.
He is drunk off cheap beer ( Read more... )

So after years of refusing to get a Live Journal... I've given up and gotten one.

I'm not sure yet if I'm going to write in here or just use it to leave comments on others' journals, instead of the anonymous ones I was forced to leave for the past few years. I suppose we'll see.

In the meantime, I'm off to go enjoy the extra hour Daylights ( Read more... )