Articles by Shattered Soul

This duality Midway In all kinds of ways A once blurry binary What was it she said to you? As lovers entwined An uncanny queer cadence What is it you wanted from me? Waning Waxing […]

-For these forty-five years- I’ve stepped onto the precipice Recalling my reflectiveness At times the cold, hard mess of this My wild and precious life -Halfway point if I’m lucky- All of those suitcase stop […]

I chug water like booze As if the muscle memory alone Could provide some relief The pain getting drowned Without the hangover The regret The shame of failure Somewhere the phantom spirits Numb this shredded […]

You know I can see him right? Standing inside you Desperate for love For affection The sensitive little soul This world a crushing burden Your masculinity performed better than mine For an entirely different audience […]

Trying to pull strands of light From the inky abyss Atrocities that can scarce be put into words Let alone analyzed By this mind With its eternal lack of knowledge Merely chipped away at with […]

I don’t know Maybe you had to have been there Seen the fireball up close The searing, glaring horror of it To understand How no one in their right mind Would run into it Think […]

If you pay attention You just might see ghosts Ambling up Albion Road Smiling, laughing, joking You stroke your snow white hair In disbelief at this apparition The two lost rock and rollers Still inexplicably […]

The depth and pull of My stormy soul Heart thudding with every Measured mile One more second, hour, day “One day at a time” Unleashed passion with no Denouement Except those mad dreams Where I’m […]