La Lune

So beautiful,
So high above,
She shone so bright tonight
As I sit hidden away
And work on my laptop.

How I yearn
To shine as bright as
La lune.

Thankful for life and limb,
For school and home,
I casually cram for a paper
Though I would not go back
And trade time with love
For time to type.

To a Friend:

Please forgive my hardened scars.
They're what I get
For choosing this profession.

Please forgive my silence.
I've written so much
I've forgotten how to speak.

Forgive my terror.
Somewhere I learned not to trust.
By God's grace I'm learning I'm wrong.

Please forgive my long memory.
I dwell perhaps too long
On my actions and words.

Please forgive me.
I will never be perfect
But through friendships
I become a little more so.

Watching the Meteor Shower

Look at the stars...
So bright,
So many,
So hard to believe
That each was hung
In their place
One by one.
Stars, in your multitudes...
Too much to see,
Too much to know
To feel,
To learn and love.
Choose something like a star...
And as voices
Strike out across the night,
Echoing over the empty field,
The world is a large
Small space indeed.

I feel the wind at my back,
Pushing me forward
And on into the night.

Guide me to bed, wind;
Buffet me to safety.
On this lonely starry night
I can pretend your force
Is arms leading me onward
As I dance alone through the dark.

I want to be shown respect
For being a human being.
I am after all a reflection,
However poor,
Of the divine.

Respect me because I'm me.
Don't show me courtesy
Due to the genes I was ascribed,
But as your equal in humanity.

That's all I want to be.

I forgot their names,
The animals that I used to love.
They slept by side
Every night
Or watched over my room
Every day.
I gave them all names
And now they're gone.

Damn my poetic heart,
Damn my stupid poetic heart
That makes every song
A symphony
And every tear
A waterfall.