Marmalade Musings

It's funny Those in my life who've made me outcast Likely walk their days thinking of God's will And don't hold themselves accountable fo...

Today is the day I stopped being awkward Well, not exactly, because I'm sure I'll Second guess myself again and certainly Speak out of tu...

All my life I've strived for strength, whether it helped or harmed And cultivated its varietals, both those tender and their cousins hard...

Here I am so far from where I started Knapsack light as it would ever be Eyes somehow neglecting all the shadows Full of daydreams and wh...

How many of you have cast your stones Flung them at me unthinking, callous, Like monkeys flinging shit at glass Like tigers breaking bone...

My world crumbling, my sky falling, my fears rising in rogue waves The stars streak down and I among them, all my flaws displayed Foolish...

Young William was new to town He wore not the hardened frown Of regulars at the saloon He sauntered breezily through the doors Past outlaw...

What I wish I could have said, in my mind's-eye arena; Iron-spined and self held proud whether standing or kneeling Before tormentors who...

Examine your self by all your actions, By which parts you give to little factions And do your values morph to abstractions When they vex ...

I heard somewhere when I was too young That beauty is pain. A fact. Nonchalant and laughing: Beauty is pain In reference to high heels an...

Static builds in the air Silently, steadily. The little world filling With unexpected tension. The storm breaks All is wrong with everyth...

So full of happiness and hope am I Down from my umber, sparkling eyes it streams, The appled drumlins of my cheeks capsize In full-fledge...

Which side of the story did you read first? Commiserate with the plight of the prisoner Before learning of his crime? I absorbed his sto...

this cold is making me appreciate wellness every thoughtline rounding back from illness to gratitude & joy in moments full of silence all...

The alarm blares through the morning Giving us repeated warnings That a new day once more is dawning But we don't care to heed Until it i...

Encased beneath your freckled skin Stretches a universe full of wonders We wake. I look into your eyes Nebulas entrancing my depths And y...

Parting ways at the door Opened to our eight hours elsewhere My feet are bare He's said goodbye; my thoughts spin In the whirlpool I've b...

I am here to tell you The God you were taught Doesn't exist. Isn't it more likely that a god of love, Love itself, not what we worship bu...

Swallowed the lie that clothes are more Than something to keep me safe and warm That what I wear should affect how I’m seen Whether viole...

A shiver of truth in my willow-iron spine That knows the strength of bending, Fissures of cold streaking along my arms “Don’t you know wo...