A Place For My Shadow Rising before the sun Waking to a shadowed world A world where my shadow hasn't yet cast Where will I find my place? Where will my shadow fit? Bumps and bruises along the way Lessons learned? I cannot stay. I don't belong. My shadow knows. It hides from here, but where? I do not know. I want a home... A resting place for my shadow to stay A small corner of my own A place that doesn't fray at the Seams when I come in A place where I and my shadow fit in.

Windless Floating in a pond with no wind Swaying towards a sea that doesn't exist Wishing that time would move forward Knowing that it isn't there "There" doesn't contain a tide- doesn't contain a way out Something might change A slit in the road-not-taken might reopen itself But alas, there's no break in the windless weather today No hope for tomorrow with the sands of change to come The crab walks along the salty shore. Like always. The ocean sprays the same seaweed to and fro Will the eddy swirl the hopes of change with it, Or, will tomorrow only fall silent with today's descending sun?

Tiptoe Tiptoe tiptoe All around the room Tiptoe tiptoe Swiftly as a broom Wonder where you're going? Why so quiet now? Will you make it there in time? I think you will...somehow. Tiptoe tiptoe Feet race on the floor Tiptoe tiptoe Your mother meets you at the door! Tiptoe tiptoe Didn't work this time. Tiptoe tiptoe Back to your room you climb. You can't go out past curfew But your boyfriend can- He'll meet you in your room tonight That's the master plan. He'll sneak right past your mother Tonight will be romance Love-making for the first time You love his green-eyed glance Tiptoe Tiptoe Tiptoe Tiptoe

Trust No One. I have recently had to learn to trust no one again. Growing up, I hardly ever allowed myself to trust anyone with anything, so I made up lies as needed and didn't speak when the entire truth needed to be held in. Now that I'm all grown up and supposed to be the responsible adult, I finally decided to give trust a try. I trust one person with everything. He really set my #life back on the path it needed to be on. Yet one day, out of no where, the trust ended with "BITCH ..." I guess I haven't earned that right to make a true friend, a true someone where trust actually has a meaning. Time is running out. Without trust the clock does not tick and I am scared to move. But trust someone again, you ask? Why, I never will.