Steps In Faith

"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

crash

We all can't bear the scrutiny of modern day society; the need to maintain false appearances and even more fake relationships can be too overwhelming for some. We all can't keep it together all the time.

Be Careful What You Wish For

This is a story about my ex-girlfriend and I, and how what she thought she wanted turned into what she got, and how unprepared both of us were for it.

Snaps and Breaks

We all have our faults and our nasty little character traits that life teaches us are either endearing little quirks or horrible personality flaws. While I am sure I have some cute quirks that have come to endear me to others, I also have one horrible personality flaw.

shining contradiction

The passing confusion of a self-esteem built on a fading facade.

kiss...

it's in his kiss...

acceptance

so where do i go from here...?

aum, home, aum

Sometimes, when you gotta go home, you just gotta go AUM.....

Celibacy and the Bitter Barrier

Some people should not be celibate for too long. Yea you heard me! Has anyone else realized that some people really just shouldn't be celibate too long? Now hear my words: Some people and too long. I don't mean everybody all the time, so simmer down and don't get ya self righteous panties in a bunch before you hear what I'm saying.

knew ya ears

The new year tends to have a universal effect on people. It tends to be a time of personal reflection and task-setting, high hopes, and shortly after, fallen aspirations. We generate a grandiose ideal of what we will be and achieve in the coming year only to dissappoint ourselves with short-lived successes and catastrophic failures. Are resolutions and unattainable goals a necessary way of life?

Carnal Conclusion; My Sexuality Self-Help Session in Cyberspace

At thirty, I thought I would know everything that I should know about my sex and sexuality. I don't mean, I would know every way to please and pleasure a man or a woman, or hell, even myself. But I thought I would have discovered everything about my emotional sexual composition. Who I am as a relatively confident, rather attractive bisexual being. However at thirty, for a little while, I found myself mentally deadlocked, stuck and confused.

The Second Time I Lost My Virginity

Better than the first time? Can a second time actually be so much better than the first time, that is just kind of knocks the first time out of the running, sort of by default? Oh, I do believe so.....

Dying Breath

I occasionally experiment in more structured forms of poetry, just to make sure I'm really learning something while I'm doing all of this. "Dying Breath" (the title is very explanatory of it's meaning) is my loose attempt at a Villanelle.

I Have Known-

I always considered "I Have Known" and "She Stands" my 'sister poems.' I wrote them both in the same night, they have the same rhythm and flow, and I believe they were conceived from the same inspiration. This is the older sister.

Retrospect

This was the beginning of my second adulthood, I think. After several dark and dismal years, and a re-establishment of my independence, I was granted the most serene and life-giving moment of stillness on a desolate beach in the Caribbean. I knew that even though my life was still destined for many more back breaking heights to climb, my strength had just tripled and I would be all right for quite some time. And I was cleansed.

Thoughts At Midnight

Those first few weeks out of that 'make up to break up' relationship can leave you feeling like you can't bear to get through the next second alone. And then the clock strikes midnight, and you roll over to the empty spot where he used to be, and....