Man of Poetry

03/20/2026

While Elizabeth Sleeps

While the world is quiet and still tonight,
You drift through dreams in soft moonlight.
I lie here awake, just feeling you near,
Grateful for love that feels this sincere.
Even in silence, my heart speaks your name,
Through every heartbeat, it whispers the same,
Sleep peacefully, my love, don’t you fear…
I’ll be right here when you wake, always near.

03/04/2026

For You, Dad
I miss you.
I miss your presence, your voice, the way a hug from you could fix the world.
I miss the chance for you to meet my children.
But I see you in them.
I see you in the rules I set, the standards I hold, the care hidden in my strictness.
You live on through me, Dad — in ways no absence can erase.
I carry you every day.
Not broken.
Not lost.
Just loved, always

01/23/2026

Elizabeth,

I love you without restraint,
without reason,
without mercy.

You are the danger I choose,
the fire I step into willingly,
the beautiful madness
I would never escape—even if I could.

My heart does not belong to me anymore.
It answers only to your name,
beats only because you exist.

If loving you ruins me,
then let me be ruined—
I have never wanted anything
more completely than you.

Forever,
yours.

01/13/2026

12/04/2025

To Jacob and Lilymae

Jacob… Lilymae…
There’s so much I wish I could tell you
without my voice shaking.

The truth is, I’m trying to hold myself together,
but not being with you
has torn pieces out of me I don’t know how to fix.
I walk around with this hollow feeling in my chest,
like something vital is missing —
because it is.
It’s you.

Jacob, when I get to see you,
it’s like someone switches the lights back on inside me.
You don’t realise it,
but your smile drags me out of places I don’t want to be.
And every time I have to let you go again,
it feels like I’m breaking for the second time that day.

And Lilymae…
God, it hurts to even say your name sometimes.
Not because of you —
but because of how little I get to see you,
how many moments I’m missing,
how many things I’m not there for.
I carry that guilt like a weight on my back.
I’d give anything — anything —
to be closer to you,
to not feel like a stranger to your days.

I know you won’t understand any of this now.
Maybe you won’t for years.
Maybe you’ll wonder where I was,
or why things are the way they are.
And that thought…
it kills me in ways I can’t soften.

But here’s the truth, even if it’s messy and painful:
I never stopped loving you.
Not once.
Not for a second.
Even when life pulled us apart,
even when I felt like I was losing you
piece by piece,
I never let go of you in my heart.

I break for you.
I ache for you.
I hope for you.
And I will always, always be your dad —
even from a distance
that’s slowly destroying me.

If you ever read this one day,
I hope you’ll understand
that losing time with you
was never my choice,
never what I wanted,
and never something I’ll forgive myself for.

You are everything I will ever get right.
Even in the broken parts of me,
you’re the only thing that still feels whole.

07/22/2025

In another life,
I think we made it.
You held my hand in the quiet,
And nothing ever broke us.

In that world,
You never walked away.
Your eyes didn’t dim
When my demons showed their face.

We danced in kitchens
And grew old with grace.
Argued over little things,
But never lost our place.

In that life,
You loved me louder.
Not just in whispers
That died in the dark.

I never had to guess
If I was enough.
You never had to hide
When the days got tough.

We raised children
Who looked just like us—
Laughing versions of the future
We never got to touch.

I met you at the right time
In that other life.
Not with wounds still bleeding,
Not with hearts half-stitched.

And I didn’t need to let you go
To learn what you meant.
You stayed—
Like forever was promised and spent.

But this life?
This life is a grave
Where memories breathe
But love can't be saved.

Still, I feel you
In moments that ache—
A shadow, a scent,
A silent heartbreak.

And if the stars are kind,
If fate keeps time...
Maybe we’ll meet again,
In another life.

06/19/2025

The Lonely Man with a Million Friends

He walks through towns with head held high,
A smile like sun beneath the sky.
He nods to all, he shakes their hands—
The friendly ghost in many lands.

They greet him warm, they call his name,
He plays along, it's all the same.
A familiar face in every crowd,
But still he’s wrapped in silence loud.

He shares a drink, he tells a joke,
He lights the room in words he spoke.
But when the laughter fades to air,
He’s just a shadow standing there.

He’s welcome everywhere he goes,
But no one sees the pain he shows.
No one stays when night descends—
The lonely man with a million friends.

He listens more than most would dare,
Holds others' weight, their load, their care.
But when his soul begins to bend,
There’s not one ear left to lend.

He’s danced at weddings, wept at wakes,
He’s mended hearts that others break.
Yet still his own remains unhealed,
A wound he’s learned must stay concealed.

So raise a glass to quiet men,
Who give and give and start again.
Who wear a grin that never ends—
Like the lonely man with a million friends.

06/09/2025

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03/13/2025

My daughter wrote this, It's called 35Bromine-56Barium

Let me know what you think!

Greed is gonna kill me before the product does
And when I'm dead and content, you will want even more
Even when the coke sets in,I'll want more of it
And when my heart rate quickens I am thinner
While my blood thickens
It ends soon enough
In literal ecstasy
Keep signing your petitions
While I sicken from the carbon emissions
Switch up your position and replace it with empathy
You hate it and I love that alot
Bite your tongue while you watch my teeth rot
You wanna leave, I wanna watch you breathe
In all the fumes that I consume
Coke and pot
And then your hardly breathing
I will blame it on the position your sleeping
It's not my fault you chose to choke it all up
And your gums are bleeding
And your needing any form of retreating
Reading the ingredients that aren't as corrupt
I'm not choking but the smoking is sort of provoking
A sense of urgency inside in my chest
And I'm kind of joking but your floating
While my bodys eroding
I'd say it's hurting but I couldn't careless
I know your able to stay stable
But you sort of enable
A position where I can put some coke up your nose
And it's hardly fatal
But there's chemicals all over your table
I'd be careful with those

01/15/2025

The echo of a love long gone,
Lingers soft, though hope moves on.
Shadows whisper, hearts still ache,
Dreams once whole now bend and break.

Beneath the moon, so cold, so pale,
Memories drift like a fleeting tale.
The world moves on, but I remain,
A fleeting ghost of joy and pain.

11/01/2024

Good Morning, Rise and Shine!

Good morning, dear, the sun's awake,
Another day for fate to break.
Grab your coffee, face the grind,
Embrace the chaos, ease your mind.

The birds are singing, skies are gray,
Another "wonderful" workday.
Alarm clocks scream, they never lie,
They say, "You're mortal, and so am I."

So brush your teeth, and wear that grin,
Pretend you’re thrilled, keep the madness in.
For who knows what today might hold,
Except a chance to grow old and cold.

But hey, it’s morning, it’s just begun,
Survive it first, then call it fun!

10/20/2024

A gentleman walks in twilight’s hue,
Neither purest white nor darkest blue,
His heart a compass, yet lost in mist,
Where shadows dance and morals twist.

His coat is fine, his manners bold,
But beneath his charm, the tales untold,
Of choices made in whispers thin,
A struggle between virtue and sin.

One hand extends to help the weak,
The other grips a power he seeks.
His smile is kind, his gaze is cold,
A man of steel in velvet fold.

He weighs the cost with every move,
Not bound to justice, yet not to prove
The wicked path is his alone;
He treads a line of fractured stone.

In every glance, a hidden fight,
Between the darkness and the light,
He plays the part, but cannot flee
The grey that binds him, endlessly