So as of right now, I've managed to find 7 poems and 1 short story amongst my older writings. I'm thinking I will go through my poems first before getting to the short story, and of the 7 poems, I found 5 from issues of my college newspaper "The Tamarack". There is also an essay that still survives, but I'm not sure if I want to post that or not (it was about the Mayan Apocalypse back when 2012 could have still ended the world lol). If y'all want me to include the essay, I will, but if not, I won't.
Anyway, looking back, I'm not sure what I was writing about with this one, but today's poem came from one of the fall issues of The Tamarack from back in 2010.
"Fallen Love"
I hear what you felt for me
It was a taser runnin' for glee
But what have I needed
To let my heart see it
I see shame in me for blindness
Yet 'tis beyond all kindness
When I'd open these unknown blinds
Connected to this knowin' mind
Truth agrees with this mistaken brain
Watchin' from those Celtic chains
Only to watch the rising shame
Cause no chance is given to my name
I knew 'twas too good to be true
I laugh; what else is new
The trees are lush without a single fruit
And clearings a beaut with nothin' to shoot
This care did not truly exist
Since love was fallen into a cyst
And I fall deeper into truth as I live
In this mind that never forgives
