Dedication and Thanks

This book is dedicated to the memory of my mother. I love you mom.

Special thanks to my wife, Krista. I couldn’t have done it without your love and support. And to my stepdaughter, Kaylee, who created the cover art. I love you.

Contents

Dedication and Thanks

Fragile Mountains

In The Blue

Goodbye

Capture My Heart

Space Between

Anchor

Meaning of Life

Insidious Beast

Isolation

Emotions

Frozen Tears

Dwelling

Burning

Mankind

Love

It Is What It Is

Another Man’s Treasure

Do I Dare?

Fireflies

Flickering

Moment

I’ve Created

Tricks

The Unknown

Neon Lights

Angel Who Cared

Do We Dare To

Questions

Sapphire Skies

The One Above

I Don’t Think So!

Willow Trees

Without A Voice

Becomes You

Waste of Time

Again and Again

Humanity

Becoming

Come Back

Living Inside

Am I Worthy

Intrusiveness

In Time

Unwinding

Unbreakable

Face to Face

Children Weep

Fear

Beneath the Breath of a Single Flower

Through My Sadness

Last Breath

Weathered Vine

Forever Love

Cracked Walls of Fear

Invasion

Shadows

Rage

Stained Emotions

Sprinkled Echoes

If God

Reflection of One

The Hand That Guides Me

As You

I Stare at the Ocean

Lost in Shades

Them

Frostbite

Twilight Night

Unutopia Nightmare

Guiding Light

Memories

Sense of Control

Madness

When I See Your Smile

Fill My Cup

The Mind’s Eye

The Ride

Bridge of Confusion

I Embrace

Space Between 2

Not Sure What I’m Doing

Ok

The Struggle

Finally Home

My Worst Fears

United Soul

Limitless Mind

Shadows

Perfection Not Required

My Hitman

Purple Hearts Untold

Heaven No More

Peaceful Waterfalls

River Tears

Passing Judgement

Baby Blue Bird

Into The Night

Ocean Blue

Destiny

My Love

The Hunted

It’s Not Often

Red Tulips

Angel of Protection

Blue Iris

Angels

My Mother’s Love

Kingdom Insight

Rising Phoenix

Spring Blooms

It Is What It Is 2

I Am Here

Mirror Mirror

Life’s Defiance

Seek and Find

I Wish

Control

Blue Ribbons

Life’s Venom

Sapphire Angel

An Angel Spoke

Under Attack

Hell on Earth

The Watching Cardinal Never Sleeps

It Hurts

Lighthouse

Ageless Wonders Playing by a Window

Once Upon A Time, There Was

Ocean Breeze

OCD

Enough Is Enough

Can You Hear The Winds

Don’t Go

Where Am I

Night Sky

The Marshes

Deck of Cards

Choices

I Will Not Be Defined

Enemy Within

Drift Wood

My Creed

Troubled Mind

One Day Peace Will Come

When Blue Skies Are Swept Away

Why

Puzzle

I Cry

Embracing Madness

Gentle Breeze

My Heart

Beast

I Think of You Often

Anxiously Awaiting

My Poetry Often Doesn’t Rhyme

Rise Above

The Abyss

I Desire To Know You

Away

Mercy

Glass Eye

Insanity

Peace Tonight

Comfort

Turbulence

Soon

Silent Winds

In Between

Synchronized Hearts

We are One Shadow, Riding the Ocean of Life

Aurora

Gentle Oak

I Miss My Soul

With or Without You

What’s Next

Silence

Temptation

Letting Go

Lost Soul

Getting Cold

Can You Hear The Winds Cry

Window Shopping

Take Time Away

Beautiful Catastrophes

Island

Burn My Reflection

Diary of The Soul

An Empty Heart

Evil Exists

Another Day

Hesitation

Red Tides

Velvet Shadows

I Am Love

Empty Canvas

Is Anyone There

Abandoned

Hands That Play

Fragile Mountains

Walking the plank

Paralyzed by fragile mountains

Echoes of fear surround this ocean of hell

A leap of faith

I will not be defined

Courage shall prevail

In The Blue

Racing like a wave, I crash into sand as rip tides pull me away

My body aches as my soul takes the ride

Bumps and bruises every which way

As driftwood and rocks get in my way

In the stillness of calm seas my mind is silenced

As I gently flow, above the sand, below the blue

If all we have is a moment of peace

I’ll take mine and be at ease

As the winds blow, the ocean awakens

Knock knock I’m here

I can feel the earth move as my spirit is shattered and shaken

The shades of the shore how peaceful they seem

Lonely I stare, lonely I cry

Tired of the wet, in need to be dry

Shadows in the night hold me together

Moonlight shine and dancing stars

Cover the night, cover the sky

Drifting the seas like a piece of wood

Stuck in between, this place I dream

Wet and dry just the same

Laughing and crying inside and out

Screaming in the silence

As my ocean turns to drought

Though I float, and float I do

Wondering what lies ahead

Drained and tired, battered and bruised

Today I’m a wave

Held captive in the blue

Goodbye

You shelter yourself, embracing the lies

Sapphire whispers, diamond sky reflection

Deserted desert, my mind’s complexion

A drifting island, magnificent waves

Ferocious storms, forever your slave

The journey is yours and mine alike

We have become one, you know my soul

Inside and out, I’m engaged in your confliction

My heart bleeds for a decision

I always knew this day would come

My soul in need of a resurrection

To stand up tall, seeking myself

In search of fire, distinguished by a liar

My destiny I define

Addiction say goodbye

Capture My Heart

Capture my heart with the palm of your hand

Your fingertips beating, I finally understand

The pain in my chest, the fear in my soul

Capture my heart with the palm of your hand

Wipe my flowing tears with the grace of your reflection

Mirrors are not needed to feel a love made of perfection

Capture my soul with limitless thoughts

Undefined, unrecognizable shadows embracing

A moment in silence begins from your memory

Your echoes live inside of me

Capture my past with the palm of your hand

There I am safe, home at last

Capture my pain with the palm of your hand

Your fingertips beating, I finally understand

Space Between

Are those cubes yours or are those cubes mine

Do they tell stories of space and time

Of past and present, do they open and close

How many roads are drifting

How many are yet to be

The eyes do lie, the soul does cry

In the middle he lives

Floating, evading what has yet to be

The space between, never cast in stone

The many pathways to be chosen

It’s up to you and me

Shining bright is the anxious mind

Dreaming of dreams, that have yet to be

But this I plead with you, do not ask what if

You never know what lurks in the cubes

And the power they create

For they are all, and everything that exists

Anchor

Rope of life intertwined

By manifestations left behind

Echoes of shadows in the murky waters

Shimmering light from above the shoreline

Anchor and core knows the soul

Meaning of Life

To find out who

To find out how

To find out what

Let emotions reflect the why

Simplicity equals reality

Reality equals spirituality

Find the totality in the space between

The meaning of life

Measures the soul

Locked away treasure

Seeking