Dull aching pain begins in my lowe… Triggering behavior that could wa… It moves up my torso to the bottom… Pushing up on my lungs like a medi… Breathing shallow breaths –my lung…

Unwelcome guest refusing to go Hauntingly present, always in tow At first it’s sharp and resides in… A dull ache spreads quickly, after… ****

Rockstar girlfriend, sexy and smar… You live your life like a work of… You attract followers like bugs to… I fell for you– it was love at fir… Everyone wants you, you’re much in…

I am confused by incongruent words… They don’t always make sense, my t… From past abuse I begin gleaning To fill the silence with meaning Meaning that’s not rooted in any h…

We live complicated lives Unbound by expectation Unfettered by conventional ties Living lives of our own creation We love in complicated ways

Hateful celebrate demise Drunken boasters contrive Airways spreading lies Putrefied flesh-consuming flies Ignorant glee condemning tries

Curiously known stranger, unfamiliarly familiar, soul mate encounter.

She came into my life with a broom… and swept me off my feet - right w… She swept away my yearning heart’s… with strangely familiar words and… She swept away sad loneliness,

A tearful memory of dreams unreconciled in our present-day reality

Dark, cold obsidian black, and fie… Earth’s nurture absorbed by the li… Tap root reaching downward anchori… Fallen cosmic magic drawn inward -… Family tree, tree of life

I’ll make things happen with foret… You’ll do what you’re told, you kn… You’ll get relief from your life’s… You’ll find release from external… I’ll be obeyed and adored by you i…

I hear your despair in the dark vo… I call out to you, but you seem an… Feeling our way. I don’t know what to say. Feeling your pain.

Clinging to a raft, Adrift on an angry sea, I can’t catch my breath. Endless waves batter me. Burdens weigh heavy;

If you are created in God’s imag… If your ancestors fell from His g… If you must be forgiven to join G… From a Christian’s perspective, w… If all creatures have a karmic sou…

Precariously balanced, I live on… The view is better here Sometimes I slip from a rocky led… Falling from grace and consumed by… Then comes pain and healing