Off I go To break again I will not bend & cannot mend I shan't not spend A piece of peace Nor ought to grant me Sweet release These pittance pennies On my eyes My only currency, My cries And lo, the light inside It dies So off I go To break again #vss365

A life to stitch Thread snipped too soon Life's a bitch Spun from the #loom The joke? It's rich Please read the room Between the lines To see the signs There's no designs And no rewinds No saving slack Nor turning back Just burn the cloth And fade to black Snip snip... #vss365

Perhaps it was The #murmer A soft summer breeze Its timbre an echo of your voice How sun #dappled water Shone iridescent Memory of luminescence Laughter Dancing unfettered In your eyes So that in winter of life Cold, bitter and brittle My heart would ever Know warmth #vss365

Was it #heartfelt? The way my Heart felt The cards That I's dealt Bloody-kneed I kneeled: Knelt Thin within Below the skin: Svelt Win to lose The words always Misspellt And all the blows I knows Came below Belt #vss365

I suppose in the end I was like an old shopping cart You know the one: One #wonky wheel Rusted steel Found broken and discarded On the curb Victim of 25 cent theft No more glossy-aisled rides For me Just a fixture stuck in the past Dreaming of better days #vss365

The rules of the game For the fools and the lame Rocked the jewels from the fame All the tools were the same Snorted lines of cocaine Sporting rhymes in a name When the challengers came Rattled battlers same #Slapdash #vss365

I wanted to be Another Bukowski So I bled lines #slapdash On the page Arterial Venerial Every letter penned With impotent rage #vss365

Conform, concede We toe the line How're you feelin'? Feelin' fine Reeling yet? The punches rained Dealing yet? I can't, I'm drained Scant of brain Gray matter rot Does it matter? Matter's not Was I scattered? Lost the plot #Adorned with laurel's And forgot #vss365

Mow us down Oh reaper grim Take our life In grinning strife Mother, wife It matters not A #symphony Of screams are caught Stuck inside a throat of rot Pestilent The lies are spun Spider silk The end's begun All lessons taught Have been forgot #vss365

As fragile as A flake of snow I have no strength And drift away Perhaps I'll die another day Today I break This fragile flake I dream awake No sleep will come I come undone The seams are weak An #oddball With no voice to speak When will it come The peace I seek? #vss365

Bless me father For all of my sins Don't know where it ends Or where it begins I break & I bends In force of the winds Now darkness descends Darkness descends Stirs in the #air & I don't care Had my fill & my share All I could bear So darkness descends Darkness descends #vss365

To everyone who for have a hard time at Christmas, you aren't alonel - I see you. You are worthy of smiles and happiness and love. I hope your Christmas is beautiful and your New Year full of hopes and dreams. Love ya, you bunch of wonderful weirdos. 💚🖤💚 #MerryChristmas

Off to brave the Christmas rave Their own may be The lives they save No need for scowls Or looking grave Perhaps I'll get a treat I crave Now time for footsteps 'Pon the pave I promise you I won't behave... #MerryChristmas #HappyHolidays #poem #poetry 🎄☃️🎁🎅💚

The cicadas sang a late season song & a melancholy smile settled on the old man's wizened face as he recalled the summer's of his past. This would be his last, he knew. He could feel it in every rattling breath drawn. With a sigh, the cicadas song ended. & so did his. #vss365

I am gone A #memory Flitting thought Forgetfully Regretfully I hold my peace A long respite This swift surcease And though the end Brings sweet release I mourn the echoes Of my thought For I am now What was forgot My time before Was all for naught #vss365

He felt himself slipping into the old ways: the familiar gait, relaxed, yet steel-spring loaded. Wandering eyes - scanning, alert. Right down to the well-oiled weight on his hip, ready to speak it's silencing #soliloquy. The old ways of leather & lead. It felt good. #vss365

We mouthed suffocating #soliloquys Deaths-head dreams Sprouting silently from our lips Assuming sanguine sobriquets - Nightshade nom-de-plume's Rich and earthy as worm food Our songs spun as spider-silk Sung in bone-white moonlight #vss365

The horizon wept #Magenta tears Justifying all our fears Mournful of the wasted years And still we laughed To spite the night The end was coming into sight On nightmare wings it took to flight Whispering of dying light Our laughter ending We bid goodnight #vss365

We broke molds Unweighted By the new's & old's Unabated By the views they hold No high-fashion #chic Just unique fleek Living by day & week Never no time to be meek Meek was for the weak And we were hunters Hunting what we'd seek But our outlook? Our outlook always bleak #vss365

Here we lay Both grim & #aphotic The children all Become psychotic Wormwood rotted Bleached-bone light Above, Old Luna Spites the night Oroberous' blinded sight Die, we will Live, we might And here we lay I shall not pray For all is left A whisper: Goodnight #vss365

Never #suave & sophisticated Couldn't be domesticated No flair for the debonair Never participated Clever, forever Always anticipated The stares & the glares Met with no cares Paid them no fares Believin' that sucks Second thoughts? No spares And even less fucks #vss365

The Sun hid shyly As though unwilling to watch And we fell to wither & rot Its #reflection trapped In the beseeching eyes Of the dying Their prayers trapped Behind soundless screams It #mattered little (#health being a thing of the past) Until all was silent Even I #vss365

Now it's time For me to fly No song of swan Just this goodbye With gasp & sigh I breathe my last The time has flown It flew too fast And all what's past Gone in a blink A second's thought For me to think I'm on the brink My head to rest The seconds #timed I did my best #vss365

Breathe in Breathe out A simple #action One that surely Ends too soon Blessed with life A finite boon Quick to bloom & fall to rot Becoming that Which all forgot A falling tear Lost in the rain While those behind Embracing pain Perhaps these breaths Were all for naught #vss365

I got tired, you know Overwhelmed from being Underwhelming Wanting nothing more Than to close my eyes Drop all the weight & self-hate Releasing the stress And everything that made my Head such a fucking mess But it wasn't an #option So I did what I could: Kept breathing #vss365

The #option grim To sink or swim Perhaps we'll drift Beneath the wave Where there is little Left to save An onyx grave There be no light & All we crave's Beyond our sight Too weak to fight Nephilim's grasp And so we breathe Our final gasp Welcoming Abyssal night #vss365

Happy release day to the last book in my Sunset Cove series, Let It Snow! This cozy read is perfect for the holiday season, but don't just take my word for it. Take a look at some of the reviews and start reading! Available here or wherever you get your ebooks: tinyurl.com/njd6fnha 🌶️📚 💙📚 #booksky

I never had the Capacity For perspicacity The #reality? My words & verbs Stuck in an alleyway Of banality Let it be what it may While others drive Free on the freeway Of he say & she say The bars I spit & spray Comes with a note Of finality Killer Like a verbal fatality #vss365

Is this the #goal? He mused disconsolately. To draw in yet another agonizing, pointless breath? To hear the maddeningly monotonous beep-beep-beep of the machines monitoring his vitals while laying here in this antiseptic hell? Better to pull the fucking plug & be done. #vss365

Beyond within Let end begin For night grows near (I shall not fear) I cannot steer So drift & veer My hands too weak (I shall not speak) Though all is bleak I will not seek To find a lie (I shall not cry) And so I die With whispered sigh I join the night (I shall not fight) #OurPoetryX

We took #issue With how Sol died Falling from the sky With nary a whisper & us alone to play With the bleak things So we found a new diety Grinning in the night With cold sickle smile Ebon locks adorned In distant diamonds Limned in luminescent lunacy We found our light #vss365

They spoke of the night sky in ancient #literature - old Luna framed by a billion pinpricks, smiling his knowing smile. Yet we bid farewell to the stars, embracing the ebon abyss, knowing they were never for us. Just twinkling memories, fallen as forgotten tears... #vss365

Dark heart Marked soul Can't lose Control Just have One goal Must play Some role Trust may Be stole Rust away High toll Must have been My roll Die cast Not whole Just my #education #vss365

We had no #creature comforts Where I was born & bred We worshipped triple-beam dreams Razor blade cuts & lined-up scenes Suits & ties? Shit...they were nothing but The fruits of lies Laughing While the spark In our eyes dies #vss365

PERSONA has been called "wildly mythic" and "excruciatingly human." Do you have your copy?

Razor-traced lines Cutting into an #Argent filigree The pain Exquisite Each line Beautifully defined And it's killing me My feelings be Unrefined From a sundered mind An Escher artwork The ending Underlined And all I ever thought Of myself Now undermined #vss365

We're trapped here In this petri dish #experiment Microscopic menagerie Living & dying Under harsh light Never knowing If the last goodbye Will be our next Goodnight #vss365

'It's going to be ok', I think to myself as the voices - dead voices. Ghosts - #creep in, whispering in hidden corners. Hungry. Worms eat as worms do. Burrowing with malicious malfeasance, erasing & displacing all positive thoughts. And my sanity? Nothing but a meal. #vss365

It's all going to come down to one final breath. The big things and small. The worries, fears, and preoccupations. Those you hate & those you love. Forgotten in a final gasp. The world will continue its #heliacal journey, until it too gasps its last. And all is quiet. #vss365

The river is beautiful today. 🖤

Treated myself to a haircut and pizza. What are you doing to be kind to yourself this weekend? 🖤 #BeKindToYourself #Sir3sSereneSaturday

On Saturdays we do exciting things, like hooking up the trailer and going to the dump. 🤣

After a couple of weeks hosting my own personal pity party, along with being sick... I'm back. 😈🖤

My idea of a wild Friday night...

No matter how dark things get, you can always find some light within. Be kind to yourself. Love yourself. You deserve it. 🖤❤️🖤

Unsought & #unseen No one thought He had dreams Yet so caught He sewed seams The threads ripped & Wove screams His head gripped Ran through scenes The dead slipped To all themes & Bled script By all means While red dripped To extremes #vss365

We ain't got much time here. Love as hard as you can, as much as you can. 🖤 #GoodNight

#HumpDay is almost officially...behind us... 😆

I don't have #energy I'm tired Tired of Dawns & Sunsets Loss & regrets Of being the one Everyone forgets Tired of living & breathing Dreams & believing Tired of hoping & coping With everyone leaving So I'll sigh my last sighs & goodbyes My last rites Just my last cries #vss365

Halfway through the week but I only have energy for throwback humping.