Carrying Your Ghost #9

I am not 

Doing this

Just for

Me

I remind

Myself

Every time I

Want to quit

Every time I

Want to give up

Every time

I want

To accept

Failure

There’s more here

At stake

Than just one life

Living

There are the

Hopes

Dreams

Aspirations

Of those lives

Cut

Too short

Too soon

And I

Remind myself

That, in my

Heart

I am carrying

Their Ghosts

And I am not

Just doing this

For me

-07/24/2007

Carrying Your Ghost #8

The machines

Brought us

Together

Friendship forged

On two wheels

And asphalt

And lonely

Nights

Spent

Wandering

Those

Reservation roads

That led

Nowhere

But

Everywhere

But those

Roads

Are behind

And now

I ride

Alone

-07/23/2007

Carrying Your Ghost #7

The location

The people

The conversations

Different

The party

Is the same

People drink

They talk

Sometimes

Inappropriately

The booze

Is better

Than we

Ever had

It’s a long

Way

From Eight Ball

One thing

Hasn’t changed

I still

Wish

You

Were here

-07/22/2007

Single Serving Thought

Write what you write with conviction, with belief, with faith.  There’s enough bulls**t in the world already.  -07/17/2007