WELCOME

..and here are a few things to keep in mind:

This blog contains mostly my poetry and a few thoughts from time to time. The thoughts will be entered when and wherever I feel necessary to keep things in proper order. Thoughts and things not belonging to me will be denoted with asterisks. Poems will be archived by the date which they were written, not by that which they were posted. I tend to update things a month or few after being written so as to keep current issues from wandering unattended around the web.

Enjoy...

[somberlife was first created July 11, 2004]


“The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.”
~ Robert Louis Stevenson


Saturday, December 24, 2005

Faux Security

But...I am never lonely...
I am self-sufficient.
I am independent.
I don't need you.

I hide behind my faux security.
But what it is I hide,
I know not.

I hide all I am
From all you are
and all it is that we could be.

I am scared.
I am insecure.
What if I am wrong?

Thursday, December 22, 2005

Fate

It had to end
There was no way
You just didn't complete me
Nor I you
We were matched together so well
But our stars just didn't align
Fate had other plans for us
It just had to end
To save us all

In some other Dream

I would liked to have kept you around
But not this time around.
Maybe in some other time
In some other dream
When we meet again
With that familiar look in our eyes
That flash of recognition
that says we've met somewhere before
in some other time
in some other dream

Thursday, December 01, 2005

Who Am I Not

Who am I not,
I am not a slut
I am not a whore
I am not a heroin addict
I am not pregnant
-nor have I ever been
I do not take hits of acid
-on a regular basis or not
I am not in a cult
I do not worship the devil
I do hate you
I am not easy
I am not a sadist
I am not a lesbian
I am not any number of things which You have pegged me
I am, however, myself
And I will continue to be who I am and not who you have made me out to be