A collection of poems written from June 2021 to August 2021. These poems touch on the meaning of life, struggles of mental illness, and the beauty of love and hope. (Excerpts below)

A collection of poems exploring the significance of fear and failure. Published Dec 2021 (Excerpts below)

the new you

tired

of hearing you

seeing you

being around you

the thoughts too busy to keep up

try and keep up

how could someone who you once knew

a different hue

now a toss up

needs to shape up

if you hate

all of you

how can possibly anyone

maybe like you

too

a trickle of time

it’s crazy to think of what just

barely was

and now what

barely is

isn’t it crazy how we can change so much

and so much can change

in such little time

time travels and feels so slow until you look back and realize

where did the time go?

today I woke up from a dream

where the trickle of time turned into a full blown stream

thirteen years had passed

passing the time is too easy when you’re asleep

it got me to thinking about

just how crazy it is to think of

what is

and

what was

how I used to live through everyday not realizing that I wasn’t

living every day

going through all the motions with a notion

of what I was missing

I don’t want to survive

surviving is eays

I want to

feel alive

every day

I don’t want to look back over the years and see a silhouette

of soul searching

without a real feeling that my soul was truly searched

now perched on my bed

a bit parched

as I’m thinking about tthoughts

thinking of time traveling like a trickle

until you realize just how much time you have

lost

a heart wrapped in celophane

there was

a heart wrapped in cellophane

a heart tightly enclosed

its heartbeat

frozen

broken

its energy now barren

the plastic that chooses to snare

the livid lair

of love

tries to tame

the pain

with cellophane

it shoves away

the feelings

which want

to swindle and stay

the heart now

stifled and succumbed to a sheet

of restraint

a soul

locked up

is a soul

that someone

sole

a heart trapped in cellophane

is this control?