I Need

I need to do that which I do not want to do.
I need to say things that I do not want to say.
By doing things and saying those things I may
find out what I am missing.
And discover my innermost source.
Just what is it that is driving me over
sanity's edge?
What is controlling and guiding me?
Helping me to explore just where this
insanity began and where exactly am I headed?


A Kiss

There must be a thousand and one ways
to give someone a kiss.
We can give one made of assorted wildflowers
picked from a roadside ditch.
Perhaps a melody in a music box.
Even the sloppiness of a puppy dogs kiss.
The chocolateness of a Hershey's Kiss.
But the best kiss by far I've found to
be the mushy child's kiss.


The Unicorn

The unicorn serene and white,
Is a stormy, graceful animal.
It has the body of a horse.
A single white horn grows
from its brow.

The unicorn so gentle and shy.
Many people have never believed
in its existence.
Only a myth they said.
But in telling the unicorn
stories they helped make the
unicorn real.

Distance

I am still reserved.
Always keeping my distance.
Between me and others.
Do not come any closer.
I need my private space.
Contact with you might
cause me even more pain.
Then I already carry around
on my shoulders and in my heart.

Talking about the past makes it
feel like the present.
That makes it all to real for me.
Ignoring it will not make it
disappear.
This is too strange a way for each
of us to exist.