Problems are for Solving

before my eyes
Wondering
Lazy
Thoughtless
Confident
Misguided
Friendless
Waiting
Impatient
Empty
Worthless
Overbearing
Hopeless
Proud
Fearful
Knowledgeable
Sad
Despised
Tearful
Vain
Hateful
Protecting
Falling Down
Lonely
a man
in the mirror

Prayer
Empty passionless words
Spoken into the air without hope

Memory
Fades too easily
Regarding the good

I
Can hide in a corner
Invisible to all but One
All the while
The center of attention

If all
Is vanity then why
Do we get out of bed?

Darkness
Dwelling in solitude
Wishing for a friend

Life
Draining away
Was it ever there?

Blindness
No light in my eyes
But seeing is more than sight

Death
Comes as an enemy
Delivering to a Friend

A while back I started writing some “poetry” down in my blackberry notes and saving it and from time to time I’ll post one here.

It’s not very good. Some of it is “haiku-like,” short, pithy stuff. Others are self-reflective or otherwise. Feel free to criticize any of it–I won’t be posting anything I just wrote, so if you think it sounds depressing it’s likely something I wrote weeks earlier on a bad day.

Here’s the first installment for today:

Deadness
In a cold branch
Waiting for new life