In Loving Memory Rickie Lee Hawthorne
(2014)
If nature were so flattered by poems written with itself in mind as people are we would be moving mountains
Passion doesn’t arise from 12 point Times New Roman but rather from ink on one page and another
Just when I get back on my feet you pass on by and I lose my footing Again
There is poetry in nature better left to be spoken wordlessly by the breeze
Forever seems like so long until I think of all the times spent waiting
I would write a sweet poem and title it with your name if I loved you at all
There is a girl and I love her and I have loved her since the beg… Or so it seems to me as I only became conscious
Everyday I visit the only writers block I know to hone my words and wit and help them cut deeper into the skin
Under the weight of life I forget how to breathe and I feel suffocated I hesitantly make peace with the world
I know that you were there in my dreams and in my arms Every dream we
I see poems that need to be written scrawled in the shape of your smile and the lines of your face
I awoke from a deep sleep and knew the reason was to write I love you
I spend my nights wishing on every star in the sky that you are alive and well
I write sharp words with a sharper knife on page after page of what might as well be the skin of my back
There seems to be a drought in my… but who knows if it is the cause or the result of the war raging within me