“Why do I paint a happy face every single holiday when they are a stinging reminder of what and who is absent.”

Why do I push up against the ones who will not have me like a wave pushing its way on the sand when my people are in the ocean and we naturally flow to protect each other.

Authenticity feels like the glue that has put me back together I feel whole and aligned in every word.

Release the person’s place thought-feeling.

I will always meet you with kindness.

I still have hope that one day someone will love all of me – from the hallelujahs right down to the hallows.

You took my heart, hope, love, and trust when you left but you gave me good poetry.

You are whole and complete all on your own everything you need is within you peel away the layers come home.

My eyes, finally conscious of the truth that is, now see unclouded.

Listen to the heart to its beat in time words are no match for what is spoken in the heart’s rhyme.

Friendships exist in the fluctuations between acceptance and rejection.

I want to be loved so I try to be you then I realize what I see in you is in the mirror looking back at me.

All this time I knew I needed some really good therapy and I found it —in poetry.

I remind myself what I desire in another is myself undiscovered.

Release the things that no longer serve you like the petals of a flower. It will seed your life with new growth and you will bloom again.

I am both mud and lotus but, my love you only see the mud.

Our lives are now changed forced anew we start again it’s all we can do.

At the heart of all men suffering lies the absence of safety, and from that absence, fear is born.

This is a poem about love its absence is merely an optical illusion.

I’m not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem.

Let them walk away. They will grasp for air, because of your absence, and because you were already ten steps ahead of them.

liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion

Sadness that is caused by the absence of love is deadly for the heart.

Your absence in my heart has taught me how to find my own way finally.

You’ve retracted your rays of warmth. You’ve pulled the clouds to cover sunlight. I think everyone is growing more concerned as the days keep passing and you’re still absent.