• Oxymoron

    December 31, 2025
    Poetry

    As I loosen my grip and you to begin drift further away into the “only you know”
    I can admit you aren’t the celestial body I fought for all those yesterdays ago

    With my nose pressed up against the bark, I believed to be facing a tree
    When I finally stepped away, I could see the embers from the forest fire and just me

    Somehow distance brings clarity, the distance no longer disrupts my waters creating tides
    I am able to use my telescope to better see you from all sides

    I would stay busy, moving non-stop
    With stillness I am able to see the long trail of blood drops

    Those in the stands were telling me how the game is going
    I was stubborn because I thought I was scoring

    Thankfully the pattern has revealed itself
    Calm arrives when your chaos is placed on a high enough shelf

    I’ll stay up here with the satellites, I am enjoying the view
    The last thing I need is to continue being in the eye of the storm faking it with you

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  • Walls

    December 22, 2025
    Poetry

    Don’t I know how to communicate?
    How come they don’t respond with reason and decency?

    This is something you cannot figure out
    It’s like talking to a brick wall because they have not yet broken it down themselves

    Until then you must let go of this challenge you have accepted
    You will drive yourself crazy attempting to understand crazy

    You can’t connect just because you mean well
    It is like making a wish towards a bottomless well

    Pack up your intellect and find a different castle
    Because the hassle will never cease and you will lose yourself in the process… again

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  • I’m Losing You, I’m in a Tunnel

    December 8, 2025
    Poetry

    Last I checked, we are related by blood
    But I must let you know I’m on the way prior to arrival

    I must show respect!
    Anything less? Impossible!

    After reading the fine print, I am completely welcome,
    But there are rules for a reason

    What about during an emergency?
    Appearing unannounced will certainly impede your plans, your peace, and your space

    I’m headed there now, but I can’t remember
    Did I let you know I was coming? Will I be allowed inside?

    God forbid the roles are reversed,
    Where time and future plans are imaginary

    “Be there by 1” really means “Be there at some point…maybe”

    Must be difficult to stick to an arrival time with such a busy schedule

    I’m headed there now, but there’s a tunnel approaching
    I’m not sure how long it is, but I will lose connection

    For how long? 5 minutes? 5 months? 5 years?

    Losing connection may be what’s apart of my plan
    See you soon

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  • The Last Slice

    October 8, 2025
    Poetry

    You’re asking why the guarded heart?
    You’ve been this way from the start

    Once a door cracks opens
    You slam it shut and tell me to stop hoping

    You ask why I am guarded
    Well there are lessons I’ve learned,
    let’s get started

    The first love as a teen
    Pure, uncut and clean

    She randomly tells me she’s done
    Sorry, you’ll be okay, thanks, this was fun

    I move on, locking in with a beautiful Puerto Rican
    But I’m naive, she’s not just for me but for all of them

    Finding someone else, they feign safety
    It was temporary and unreal, because they were chasing money

    You may say that I’m carrying hurt and pain
    I say that touching a hot stove will burn your hand time and time again

    With lessons learned from decades of strife
    Can you blame me for protecting this slice of me with my life?

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  • Business Partner

    September 26, 2025
    Poetry

    The new business partner had an offer
    To take on this developing project, still in its infancy

    They knew of my previous experience with such projects
    Our methods may be different, but I have proven my experience…I agree to it

    A couple of years in, there is plenty of friction
    They won’t listen and I’m accused of being a fraud

    Months continue and we are questioning our gains
    I am wondering if this project is worth investing in

    Another couple of years, the feelings about it are conflicting
    They see success and believe my expectations are too high

    The potential is there, but see consistent frustrations
    They tell me our partnership is done, but they want me to continue building the project

    But the project was their idea and has only brought me frustration
    They insist but I’m beginning to consider resisting

    It will be difficult to walk away from something I have invested so much into
    The cons are outweighing the pros, I am sorry, but I have to let you go

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  • Untitled

    September 9, 2025
    Poetry

    The rain beats the windshield as they drive away from doing the most and saying the least
    Nothing came of it and nothing rose, someone forgot to add the yeast

    Their fist slams the steering wheel again
    As the headlights from passing cars cause their tears to glisson

    The radio is low but fits the mood
    Doing their best to forget what was good

    They approach their destination, one that wasn’t in mind
    The tires slosh to a stop as the seat reclines

    The sky flickers and thunder matches their soul
    Deep echoes far away,black as coal

    As they calm, the music rises and eyelids gain weight
    The rest stop pauses them from their fate

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  • Partners

    July 22, 2025
    Poetry

    How have you had so many partners but know nothing of partnership?
    Is it easier to share bodies rather than what makes them tick?

    It must be the vulnerability you are afraid of
    To expose those parts of you is deeper than using the word “love”

    You have partnered with a deadly sin for so long
    That you believe these thoughts you have therein belong

    Wondering why happiness is just out of reach
    Continuously giving your body away, losing parts of your soul with every inch

    Why must you deceive those around you?
    When the only person you’re lying to is you

    The demons you carry could care less about your well-being
    Until you face them, you will continue crying on the inside while fake smiling

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  • Witch Hunt

    July 16, 2025
    Poetry

    By Ryan Miller


    You’re looking for something that you won’t, nor do you want to find.
    It’s your personal witch-hunt that you’ve haplessly and recklessly designed.
    Why would one subject themself to such torture? It’s the current moment and vibes that’s experiencing your forfeiture.


    Of course, things are not always what they present to be at face value.
    One should and will inspect what they expect and I understand that from you.
    But when and where does the overstepping of your investigation subside and go to die?
    If not for the sake of your own sanity, I’d hope you’d consider it for mine.


    What is it you fear so deeply that it calls you to dig so blind? Sifting through ashes of fiction, scorning the peace you might find. Every question and concern you throw like a dagger returns to your hand.  Yet you sharpen it still, like the truth alone can’t stand.


    We’ve all been haunted by shadows we swore were someone else’s sins, But when the smoke clears, it’s typically our own fire that burns from within. So tread lightly through the wreckage you’ve built in suspicion’s name. Not all witch hunting leads to found guilt and the riddles are part of a not so fun game.


    I won’t beg you to trust what you’re unwilling to see.  But understand that at times your search has also imprisoned me. If peace is what you seek, let the ghosts finally rest. Sometimes the hardest magic is learning to guess less.

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  • Sold Separately

    June 29, 2025
    Poetry

    When you finally discover who you really are, will you be able to forgive yourself?

    To give yourself grace while learning how hurt people really do hurt people

    Of course not intentional pain, just the right amount to match what was familiar

    A self-made distiller, manufacturing what  can “only be” without considering there’s more to see

    You are only creating what you KNOW to be true, how could there be another truth?

    Once unveiled, the real you has known all along, they just weren’t strong enough

    To show you what you weren’t ready to accept…accepting how absolutely beautiful all of this is

    And how that pain you created isn’t a requirement…it can be something sold separately

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  • Ego’s Fall

    May 31, 2025
    Poetry

    With a smile on his face, he puts his truck in park
    She invited him over without even a date, he thinks it was the spark

    They exchange pleasantries and lay down
    He believes he deserves this, as he looks around

    He’s smiling at what he thinks is a win
    He’s blinded, she will be his greatest sin

    She thinks he’s okay, but needs a father for her fatherless child
    She needs him to stick around, regardless of her mileage

    He believes he deserves this and she makes him believe so
    She saw his weakness all along, his ego

    She will feed it as long as she needs to
    He’s clueless about the plot, unfortunately this is something he needs to go through

    Years pass, she’s gotten what she wanted and more
    He’s doing more than expected, he’s convinced there’s happiness in store

    She balances what she wants to do with filling his ego
    He’s home with the kids as she goes to and fro with them and who

    The plot begins revealing itself
    Realizing the damage his ego has done to his health

    He had to go through this hell to grow and stand tall
    He needed her to showcase his flaws, a battle he won with ego’s fall

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