Poem #3

Dusk has my breath baited,
As I await the light.
When my heart will be flying,
Past and future out of sight.

Morning breaks, and I am climbing,
The peak is all I see.
My pace dependent on the tracks laid,
Fluctuating steadily.

The sun is high but not for long,
My heart leaps to my cap.
Downward, downward, rushing faster,
My insides on my lap.

Darkness spreading, I’m still soaring,
My high coming to an end.
These thrills have me so addicted.
Another day around the bend.

Ever since I was a child,
I’d wait with anticipation.
Till the moment I’d be riding upon,
A roller-coaster exhilaration.

Poem #2

Can’t remember when it started,
It must have been quite gradual.
For when it overtook me,
I became so far less fragile.

Time and time again I felt it,
Start to swell and build within.
I find it hard to quiet,
When it’s daring me to sin.

Every day it rises faster,
Leaving consciousness behind.
Till all I can think of is succeeding,
On the teetering ladder I climb.

Next time don’t judge my actions,
When I put on such airs.
Give me that recognition,
As up and up my ego flares.

Poem #1

I feel his presence,
And wonder why,
He seeks to plague me,
As I lie.

He comes to me,
So late in the eve.
For the life he draws from me,
I do grieve.

With each passing second,
I grow weaker and weaker.
My strength is ebbing,
While he grows no less meeker.

He just won’t let up,
No matter how hard I try,
To just get rid of this awful,
Pleasure-seeking guy.

Pulling the sheet over my head,
I toss and I turn.
Yet of my hatred of him,
He chooses not to learn.

“Get out of my life,
I’m so done!” I said.
And with one final clap,
That mosquito’s now quite dead.