Free Will I want you Yes you Sitting in the back Like I won't see you I want you To explain Why your god Hates any of its creation What does that say About the nature Of a divine That can love then ha...

The barbed wire has been laid Trenches interconnect for safety And life … life is lived Between moments of pain and suffering

The Ugly Americans The flag is waved — more often worn Screams of ‘Merica echo to infinity Bumper stickers of “Love It Or Let It” Plaster the darkened windows of excess Proud of their patriotism They ...

In the end it wasn't hate It wasn't even a tone in your voice It was indifference And your inability to recognize it Love never dies in a battle Love dies in silence And your silence was deadly The si...

A Very Small God If you cannot see God in your neighbor — you have a very small God. If your God is omnipresent but cannot abide with a queer couple — you have a very small God. If your God doesn't de...

I'm Pro-Life — No Really I'm pro-life No really I am Well — so long as That life is neonatal However … If it is a hungry child Living on the edges of society Fuck that — we can't afford to help Or … W...

Let Them Eat Gruel I've been lately thinking About the delusions of life And before you protest the idea Let us examine just a few of them Over two billion dollars has been raised By legislators for t...

I Know What It Means I know what it means to be trafficked.

The Door We all are shown multiple doors over the course of our journey.

Think of a time. A time where fear ruled. Not necessarily yours, But your nation or community. I know right. They're just so many of them.

A Series Built Upon The Greatest Force

I Am Tired I am tired of Republicans assuming they hold the badge of Christianity.

In An Instant In an instant a choice is made. A hungry child steals. A wealthy man condemns. The huddled masses ignore. And in this instant—this completely avoidable instant. Where injustice thrives a...

The Hurricane I stared at the blank page— and I raged.

A formal essay on Open Individualism and the Primacy of Love

A Reflection

The Long Good-Bye The room was silent, each person already carrying their own death sentence.

A Nermarian Creation Account

The Visit of An Cariad The wind through Baile always carried a whisper of peat smoke and elk fat, but when An Caraid walked down the winding lane past the lower pond the wind didn’t blow at all.

Allegiance You pledge allegiance As you pound your chest You pledge for what you get Your allegiance is to your bank account You wave the flag Showcasing your patriotism Performative crap When given t...

Let Your Love Show Let your love show Let it shine in the darkness of someone's day Let it roll across the valley of life as a heavenly thunder Let yourself feel the warmth of love's embrace Let your ...

Content Warning - Childhood Sexual Abuse

Ours It wasn’t what was supposed to happen.

Judas The night claimed the sun's fading light As the dance continued its nightly accord The dancers stepped on each other's toes Thinking it was all just part of the show For innocence was a precious...

The Final Day It arrived a moment too late And the eyes that spied No longer wanted to play For it was the end of a love song There were no tears shed No loss of sleep There was only silence In what w...

Internal Thoughts Meet Reality I am awashed with fear Then doubt visited me And destroyed any progress Leaving me at the original starting point of my life Do not question what I say Do not ask for vi...

Aria All but the tears have fallen And the dreams of a utopia have become the nightmares of a reality unwanted by all So hold the celebration— and don't call the press just yet For the uncertainty of ...

An Emahri & Pel Tale

A Emarhi & Pel Tale

The winds of December blow Hard across the plains of my life What should have been gentle passage Has turned into a troublesome little thing

The Guide We don't prepare for reality.

By My Side I wandered far and wide Fought on foreign soil Laid in the gutter Soared on wings of eagles And through it all Through the raucous hollers Through the tears shed You silently stood watch ov...

All People Two-hundred and fifty years Through the glorious highs And through the troubling lows We have grown into our creed All men are created equal We understand this today to mean All people are ...

My faith leads me. My philosophy guides me. My words convict me. I am guilty of love.

The Longest Sermon I fondly recall writing chapel services when I volunteered at a Veterans Hospital.

Yellow Journalism Satire

The Potential It rolled onto the beach brought there by the currents of yesterday. It was largely ignored by all— and by all I mean all but one who saw the potential inside. It was gathered—cleaned an...

Rant Number 327 Fuck you! What a way to start But it's fitting for I am exhausted of the bullshit No one is taking any responsibility and the damage is already done The damage to me and I count I am s...

When I go there My favorite place in my mind The world around me stops And I step into my life Tender winds caress the soul As the music of yesterday Fuels the hope for tomorrow As it blesses the soul...

Change It is all a grand delusion Created by those who can Forced upon those who cannot And in the end nothing changes It isn't about their Pride It is exactly about your hate Cloak it in your faith a...

Violence The Orchestra hammered out a melody To call it beautiful is to deny its truth Its barbaric nature carried the crowd Into a realm of flesh and violence For ten minutes it continued—on and on B...

We all know someone who is accomplished Someone who made the best of themselves Their voice carries weight—for we gave it weight

Stardust And into the sky go I higher and higher until high becomes low— as in low earth orbit Without the lights of earth blinding me to the sight I see the heavens unfold in all their natural beauty...