Can anybody tell me why God won't speak to me?
Why Jesus never called on me to part the fucking seas?
Why death is easier than living?
You can be almost anything
When you're on your fucking knees.
Not today,
Not my son,
Not my family,
Not while walking is still honest,
And you haven't given up on me

'So I gave the man ten dollars and I waited for my ship to come in. I'd go down to the dock every day with my little boating sneakers and my sailor's cap, my Thurston Howell the third blazer, my fishsticks. I'd borrow binoculars and scan the 7 seas, but no ship. I'd launch flares, went to nautical school. I got a job as a longshoreman. I ( Read more... )

and we sink and we drown
and what is lost can never be found
well these arms did swim,
until the lungs pulled in
panic was lost in a deep understanding
that you will see what is wrong with everything
what is wrong with you and me
they make all the right reasons to fuck it up
you gotta fuck it up

I have grown tired of being treated like shit and then being blamed for it. I never thought it was in my personality to give up....but at some point when a tumor becomes malignant, it must be removed.

Louie

Doing okay

'When he was six months old, he said to his mother: I am going up to see the world. Ah, she was very sad. She cried. She didn't want, but then she said: God be with you, my dear son. Be brave and honest and no hurt will befall you ( Read more... )

i'm not sure when or how it happened but i think kindness has been taken for granted....i never really liked it when people were put on this tremendous pedestal just for looking out for someone else. sometimes, and it happens more often than the cynics will testify to, people look out for others. and once in a rare while you will find some who ( Read more... )

"I am only putting down details which entered me, fragments that were able to part my flesh ( Read more... )

and it rains, it's been raining ( Read more... )

i don't know who's responsible, but i've been blessed.

simple gifts

you are not alone, laying in the light.
put out the fire in your head,
and lay with me tonight