My Poetry

All the Reasons I Should Never Love You

Why must I love you
while you are so aloof,
so lost to yourself?

Why must you be so perfect
and yet so fatally flawed?

And why must those
flaws be so irresistible,
all the reasons that things
between us could go so horribly wrong
only makes me crave you even more.

I know you shun away
afraid of the disaster,
but all I want is to play ...

I was reading a book when one of the characters mentioned a challenge to write a 10 verse poem with 200 letters, so I was intrigued.


Angel of Death


I taste gunmetal
on your lips, you are
beyond my reach, death lingers
behind your far away eyes,
bullets fall from the sky.

We made love
on an unmarked grave,
our flesh carved the stone
the look in your eyes an elegy
how beautiful ...

Paper Doll Lover

I have liquid dreams about you,
watching your face appear
in a smoky haze,
I would enthrone you as my noir lover,
if I did not know you would balk
at the offering.

You were never born to be King
however I might adorn you,
laurel leaves upon your head,
hanging bones around your neck,
I would exalt you.

It is beyond you to be debonair
however I dress you within ...

To explain the Henry reference it is derived from the book "The Secret History" in which there is a character named Henry who is a very charismatic and intriguing chracather who tends to draw people around him, but has narcissistic tendency's

The World of Henry

I am surrounded by Henry's,
elusive shades
that insist themselves in my life
with penetrating force.

Captivated by their charm
I refuse to become entangled ...

Abyss of My Soul

My soul
is it's own abyss
it draws you in
and for a moment
the darkness within
transfixes
with hypnotizing
enchantment,
how long may one
linger upon this edge
of madness,
and keep your sanity
still intact?

It overwhelms
after time
and begins to suck you down,
greater the answers you seek,
more profound seems
to be the questions ...