My words carry a rhythm all their own
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Infect me
#vsspoem prompt for March 14th, 2020: Infect
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Watch the neighbors
#vsspoem prompt for March 13th, 2020: Fight
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Abandoned shards
Dream fragments paving the gravel road that scars your soul
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Devotion makes hungry
#vsspoem prompt for March 11th, 2020: Devotion
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Unclaimed fields
Where hearts filled with fledgling wonder rise above the blue
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Conversation shifts
#vsspoem prompt for March 11th, 2020: Trap
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You’re it
#vsspoem prompt for March 9th, 2020: Label
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Productive lives
#vsspoem prompt for March 9th, 2020: Decision
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Let me have this day
#vsspoem prompt for March 8th, 2020: Thaw
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All-time low
Waiting for the next blow to land
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Vow, fulfilled
A happy ending — for all but me.
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This too shall pass
Trapped riding out the shockwave’s forward momentum
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Brave the darkness
#vsspoem prompt for March 7th, 2020: Dragon
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Life was bliss
#vsspoem prompt for March 6th, 2020: Bliss
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Fates unreachable
#vsspoem prompt for March 5th, 2020: Gate
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Compassion, noticed
#vsspoem prompt for March 4th, 2020: Compassion
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Amidst creation
#vsspoem prompt for March 3rd, 2020: Reach
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War inside me
#vsspoem prompt for March 2nd, 2020: Apart
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Beautiful afar
#vsspoem prompt for March 1st, 2020: Slippery
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Forced happiness
#vsspoem prompt for February 29th, 2020: Happy
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A damned good man
At best a sinning saint, at worst a damned good man
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The power of self
I don’t need a book of rules to be
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Mending broken trust
#vsspoem prompt for February 28th, 2020: Unwilling
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For those who still dream
Leaving trace, nor memory
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Fire dancing
Come heal me, caress me, consume me
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Let go
With relief I feel myself let go
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Measure of control
Either way, you will speak out no more
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Exit
Oh, if I could only tell you
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No honor
#vsspoem prompt for February 27th, 2020: Honor
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I feared
I thought I cared
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The bottom line
An entire species valued exclusively at net-worth ratings
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Station in life
Are you killer or prey? You decide, will you eat or be eaten
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Expecting honesty
#vsspoem prompt for February 26th, 2020: honesty
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True friends
point out painful truths, never fearing a backlash
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Words of wishdom
Words of wishdom, statements unfounded