Lytzki

"Self-sufficient," that's what you said But who ever said that was the goal? If ever I needed someone, it was only you. Bereft without you, I learned how to be self-sufficient.

You are a thorn in my heart. All who know me can see me yet your blindness baffles me. Strangers can comprehend my motivation yet you elude me in this, a puzzle my mind can't work around. I feel I am a failure for your ignorance; yet proof abounds: I am not at fault in this. Yet you torture me because you and you alone are blind to the truth of me.

For twenty-six years I've called you home forming and informing me Now leaving for wide open spaces crossing borders into the unknown I am grounded in all that's past to guide me through what's to come

Funny thing about living here... something so significant for such short span of time My idyllic childhood encapsulated into six months to a year And yet... ideals are never as they seem: The battles betray the reality of this so-called peaceful existence

Broken and shattered but most could never see the cracks. Put back together by the most loving hands. Fine bone china stitched together made stronger once broken and healed.

Do you even see me? Do you understand at all? After all this time you see me one-dimensionally, a hyperbolic caricature. But what about the heart that beats beneath the surface? What about the soul that longs to see the best fulfilled in everyone? Do you even see me? Or do your preconceived notions blind you to the reality that is me? No monsters here, just imperfection on parade.

Unresolved Everything I thought was over Everything I thought I'd dealt with has come back to haunt me The past is not dead, but lives in me in the background Every time I think it's over Every time I think I've dealt with it all another memory causes trouble in my heart and in my mind Divided among myself, pieces have been taken and scattered to the world All that I thought was finished will never be The strings cannot be cut Or to the wind I lose myself Forever lost to the ones who have touched me and left with a part of me To remain intact is not to Forget 2006

our shadows dance in candlelight, they hold each other close as we stand apart revealing the lies we swept under the carpet your adulterous acts have fractured our relationship and still our shadows play they laugh together knowing they, our Souls, will be forever intertwined while we are in pain and you try to comfort me, take away the tears you've given me but looking at you I see a stranger, someone I never knew, someone I never knew you could be and our shadows dance in the candlelight of what started out as a romantic eve but now the sweet melody in the background, our song has been tainted with your dirty secrets

In the garden, evil lurks, the serpent prepares to strike Of all life, the crown it was, God's own image, Adam and his wife. Stewards of Eden, they roved through God's own garden tending to each little bush. Unbeknownst to them, there was a presence uninvited. He roamed the earth, he slithered, waiting for a proper chance to tear them away from bliss. He, among God's creation, prepared for the deception; upon naїve Eve he preyed, her innocence her downfall. The tainting of the world took just one bite of forbidden fruit; the breaking of God's sole command. Therein entered sin to destroy with moth and rust what God