Us

 

A long distance call

Our apartment was small

Kisses in the rain

The first labor pain

A girl then a boy

Both brought us joy

You opened up a beer

I didn't want you near

Your not who you were

Our life now unsure

God knows I tried

A million tears cried

I gave you a choice

You ignored my voice

In your drunken state

You showed only hate

Nothing left to try

Time to say goodbye

The kids stayed with me

But now you were free

Soon you found another

She became a mother

You threw the beer away

The man I loved today

 

©S. Austin Vincoski

All Of This

 

Still darkness

The abyss

Holy hell

All of this

 

A white noise

Words amiss

Hush, silence

All of this

 

Aching mind

Demons bliss

Tortured soul

All of this

 

Tarnished dream

Failure's kiss

Decayed hope

All of this

 

Bleeding out

Brute justice

Torn, splintered

All of this

 

©S. Austin Vincoski

 



Hate

 

When does love die

When does hate grow

I have asked why

Still, I don't know

 

I've been adored

I've been betrayed

How to turn back

Or let it fade

 

Hate is for real

Love can't pretend

Some wounds don't heal

Some hearts won't mend

 

Time and more time

The pain and tears

Losing myself

On wasted years

 

©S. Austin Vincoski

Prey

 

Always the hunted

Treated as prey

Setting your traps

I can't get away

 

You plan a scheme

Map out a plot

Hiding your snares

Until I am caught

 

My role is a victim

And courage I lack

Cowardly scented

Crudly you attack

 

Continually baited

So trusting and meek

I'm game and a game

My suffering you seek

 

To wound, but not kill

Sustained, I'm not free

Gutted, yet once again

It's open season on me

 

©S. Austin Vincoski



Why

 

They call it life

 

I don't know why

 

When everything

 

Will have to die

 

Not always death

 

But it will leave

 

If ever you love

 

Surely you'll greive

 

Parent, sibling

 

Child or friend

 

Spouse, even pet

 

It all will end

 

Whatever you love

 

Hold dear or cherish

 

That is chosen

 

Soon to perish

 

Life is a liar

 

Do what you will

 

Doesn't matter

 

It has the skill

 

You can't fight it

 

Don't try to run

 

Just wait then watch

 

It come undone

 

Not a single shred

 

To say goodbye

 

They call it life

 

I don't know why

 

©S. Austin Vincoski

 



Unconditional

 

Pull me from my dark thoughts

 

Infuse me with your light

 

My world is self destructing

 

Is your creation not a blight

 

People are less than human

 

Society as a whole

 

Devoid of any conscience

 

Yet you accept every soul

 

Must I dwell among them

 

Love thy brother as you say

 

Fraught with frustration

 

Continually pushed away

 

Difficult to comprehend

 

Forgiviness instead of shame

 

Loving us unconditionally

 

Each individual the same

 

Please grant me this wisdom

 

For knowing them as you do

 

And strengthen my resolve

 

To love unconditional too

 

©S. Austin Vincoski

Before I Go

 

How I long to run freely with the wind at my back

 

Climb that mountain until the peak bears my track

 

 Slumber in a field with warm sunshine on my face

 

Every star in the night sky, my fingers would trace

 

Swim in the ocean upon those never ending waves

 

Explore a wilderness filled with caverns and caves

 

Tread along a beach plucking shells from the sand

 

Find the end of a rainbow in the palm of my hand

 

Dance in the rain while all the wild flowers grow

 

Yell my loudest in a canyon and wait for the echo

 

Carefree as a child chasing after yellow butterflies

 

Find that "once in a blue moon" and a pink sunrise

 

See a place on planet earth since before time began

 

Before I go my dream will become reality, my plan

 

©S. Austin Vincoski

My Box

 

Monsters couldn't phase me

 

Thunderstorms never did

 

I will hide inside my box

 

Like when I was just a kid

 

I have my tattered blanket

 

And old white grungy bear

 

You think this is ridiculous

 

But, I really don't give a care

 

If the wind howls at night

 

I think I like that the best

 

Curled up inside of my box

 

I will build a blanket nest

 

At times I don't like people

 

So straight to my box I go

 

It's quiet and it's safe there

 

And no one will ever know

 

Life can be very mean to me

 

But, I have a place I can cry

 

My box is always waiting

 

And yesterday's tears are dry

 

My home away from home

 

Is my little box on this earth

 

You think it's only cardboard

 

You'll never know it's worth

 

They come in everyones size

 

And best of all there free too

 

So if you need a box like me

 

There's one out there for you

 

©S. Austin Vincoski