Eleven Years

 Sunlight kiss my body

Lover kiss my soul

I'Il persevere forever

By half I will be whole

The Tarot Reader

 Devils dance, now roll the dice

They come like lions, leave like mice.

First Love

 Skin on skin

My soulful dear

Your eyes on mine

Nothing to fear

I'll hold tight

Never to run

Taste so sweet

Drops of sun

Wispless Soul

I am the tangerine oracle.
Only lies do roll from my tongue.

To assuage and bely all your fears.
I'd give you the breath from each lung.

I speak in the words sorely wished for,
To weave diamonds built from coal.

With gentle and nimble, pale fingers
I pluck sadness straight from your soul.


I'm rarely spared a thought.

But tales all told, help all given,
It's in my own rope I tie the knot.

Toothless

One by one I pull out my teeth

I won’t be fighting no more. 

No need to bare them 

to gnash them at foes.

I’ve given up now, 

There’ll be no more of those. 

I won’t be settling my score. 

Enchanter of Empty Places

What further words should fall from my mouth?
I'm not ready to take needle and thread to my plump lips,
Yet the spells I chanted don't summon the Djinn.
I've studied the herb and potion,
Contorted my body to call on who they tell me are the Gods,
My soul I gave up for offering in blind hope of blessings.
Still when I step back, take stock,
I see only the jingling hat of a fool,
Perched on the forehead of a pretender.

Ugh Part 1

Silly child, who thinks she owns the world,
There's millions of future's waiting for you, girl.

It's never clear the path a leaf will take,
When wind gusts through and rips it from its place.

So keep on guessing, you will never see,
Analyze yourself, the dreams that once could be.

You just can't hold the future in your hands,
It has a way of slipping through like sand.