Are You Lonesome?

Do you miss me?


The nights we used to lay together

The way I used to rub your stomach until you went to sleep

How I would ease out

The bed

Not to be sneaky but to give you more time to rest

How I would have dinner

Waiting for you

After you came home from doing God knows what

House cleaned

Bath water ran

Are you Lonesome?



The way I would

Whisk you out of the tub

Like you were a child

Dry you off

Lotion your body

And console you

On your long day at work

Are You Lonesome?



How about

The way I would let you use me

As your punching bag

Puppet

Fool

Whatever you felt like during our “relationship”

Are You Lonesome?



The way you acted

Using me as a circus monkey

Wanting me to jump through hoops for you

When I did more than I should

Foolish of me

But I walked away with my head held high

You Deserve To Be Lonesome



© Steve Logan 2010

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Stand Strong

Never
Will they
Be able to silence us
We are strong
In spirit
Strong
In our mission
To reshape this world
To move away from the hate
On to more love
But not the kind
That you need a latex glove
The kind of love
That you have
For a fellow human
The mean mugs
I get when I speak
Just be friendly
And you stare at me
As if
I just spat
In your face
Ignorance
Has run amok
Together
We can all be one
Stand Strong

(C) Steve Logan 2010
All Rights Reserved

Khalil

My son
I love you

I don't get to
See you as much as
I would like
But the world is not as dark
And my heart warms
When I do see
Your face

A broken home
Mommy and daddy
Couldn't make it work
Even though
All the trying
Doesn't make me love you less
We share the same blood
You are a part of me
I owe you so much
For the joy you have brought me
The countless times
You have saved me from myself

My hero

(C) 2010 Steve Logan

Me

You see me
The 100 watt smile
That I give off
The jokes I tell
But you
Have
No idea
From the people I've hurt
To the ones that have
Loved me so hard
That it caused them great pain
The mirror I look into
Most of the cracks
Have been repaired
But they are still
Visible to the eye
As a reminder
Of the failures
From yesterday

(C) 2010 Steve Logan
All Rights Reserved