Deliberate Love

The capacity to love with
body and soul
is within one's control.
Deliberate love should take hold
of desire
and want with all that
raging heart.

Why We Write

Chapter 1
Why We Write

Everyone feels inconspicuous,
just one among many,
but every once in a while
a person feels something more,
an instinct which burns
in lifelong desire.

Sugar Rush

A little voice
in my mind
would admit I deeply denied
how his promises
of comfort and love
are empty desire.
A sugar rush.
I feel momentarily moved,
but alone.

Desire And Despair

Desire and despair,
they were like magnets
that clashed,
colliding again and again,
obsessively
all her life.