Wide awake
Staring upward
In the darkness of night
Quivering
Wrestling with delusions
It’s vital to keep breathing
But that doesn’t make it easy
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Poems
- Life in Autumn
- Watermelon-Induced Coma
- Lips That Wish to Curl
- Old Enough to Want
- What Deer See
- Waking Up From a Dream
- Go Play Outside
- That Racist Thought I Had
- Sutra for Our Times
- The Glow
- The Darkness of Space
- Arguing With Strangers
- My Prayer to the Earth
- Am I My Body?
- The Violence We Ignore
- When Power Sleeps
- Can't Sleep
- Exhale, And Release
- Who Am 'I'?
- All I Need
- When I Die
- A Nation of African Americans
- Amid the Stars
- The Dead Along Country Roads
- You're Never Alone
- Life Is Resilient
- That Night
- The River of Life
- His Eyes, His Eyes
- The Distance Between Us
- Date Night
- A Day for a Song
- Education
- Things We Can't Afford
- Timber
- Southern Snow
- All That Is
- Walking
- The Backs of Heads
- Wooden Plank
- Market Places
- Is This Zen?
Stories
- The Brick That Broke Right Through Her
- Life Comes
- The Mountains Are Close Today
- The Start of Something Beautiful
- Spark Joy
- The Face in the Mirror
- The Moment Your Heart Stops
- They Called Him Pharaoh
- The Way It Burns
- Each New Day
- Read Between the Lines
- In These Woods
- Fly
- Shot Through the Heart
- Thirst
- Free Software
- The Other Side of the Fence
- A Year in Time
- Two Girls In Love
- Leaving Me
- One Less Man
- Vote For Her
- Jump
- Learning to Breathe
- Snowed In
- His Type
- Does Not Compute
- Dragon Fire
- Socially Awkward
- Dying for Air
- Kick Me Again
- There We Were
- The Long Ride Home
- Look At Me
- What To Do With Mushrooms
- Ant Knights and Sorcerers
- Needle and Thread
- The Shallow End
- Public Speaking
- Why We Fight
- Like Me
- Heart Bound
- Friends Like These
- Cynthia
- High School Love
- Where The Wild Roam
- Fourteen Bags
- Meltdown
- Butterflies Make Music, Too
- I'll Bring the Turkey
- Dear
- Size Matters
- Black and Republican
- Just Let Me Pee
- Take the Shot, Son
- The Gun Debate
- Startups
- Treebound Fortress
- Pushed Astray
- Her Favorite Shorts
- How Good God's Been
- Nude
- Breathe
- Guardians
- Missing Her Smile
- Lily
- The Beaten Trail
- Another Day
- A Cold Wind Blows
- The Wall
- The Starving Child
- Reach for Me