What Crosses My Mind

  • The Next Day (Why Paris?)

    When sun arose to widen sleepy eyelid A calm begun soon turned memory horrific We wake shadowed in darkness, a slow embrace Shattered dreams begun inside stranger despair. The news however distorted cannot rid Crying heart, confused eyes, reality’s prolific Mastery of human nature’s fallible race. Once thrive her eyes this morning lacking air. No…

  • Peace Alone

    When I walk outside today I will see blue skies perhaps a touch of gray, possible thunderstorms. I won’t see blood and carnage, I will not experience the loss of limb my world ‘today’ does not contain a cease fire to prevent ripping human lives apart both physically and mentally. When I walk outside today,…