To: Tiffany Lynn, my sister Life is a mountain we must all climb. Your salvation, that saving grace, is inside you waiting to be uncovered. Like a fire left alone, it waits for you to uncover the embers and kindle a flame. Build a roaring fire to light and warm the world. And when the […]

To: Stacey Lee, my sister 30 wow, I’ll be 27 this year.It’s been almost 10 years since we graduated high school.The same stretch of time from 2nd grade to our senior year. (that realization hits me like a swift kick to the chin)I pick my head up and look at the road I’m on.I turn […]

My daughter and I started the day like most that came before it. With each day getting longer, our morning routine was a bit brighter. On our way out the door she stopped dead as I turned to shut the door. When I turned back to walk off the porch, still standing there silent, she […]

A demon of fiery eyed descentIs drawn from my depthsInnocence bows as he passes With a pissed fisted handMy blood drips from his wrist A dance of darkness and searing flameAnd in the wake of the blaze Pain, angst, and ashes …sorrow lingers smolderingAnd all that pass, whisper my name -Adam J Steele

As surely as my weeping heart draws ink from this pen, surer still our love will echo the halls of heaven. All I ask is this; hold in your heart the memory of what love I gave. Save it, for if ever you forget what it is to soar. And please pardon me while I […]

Days pull me close like an arduous loverAs Seasons bear witness at the cusp of my lipsWhile passion lays thick like fogThe grass stands in aweIndistinguishable against the setting sun My ear catches the whisperOf lover’s prayers falling from heaven‘Let go’ they sayLay with me a while In fleeting moments as the last draws near […]

A new page in the chapter of my forefathers.The ramblings of a man or boy. A fox trots through my Daughter’s dreams.She mocks his mischievous grin.His playful nature helps her smile.His bark echoes the child within.She slumbers soundly in my midst.Bundled tightly in my love.A love only a father knows…. -Adam J. Steele

To my older sister: I pick my head up an look at the road I’m on.I turn around and look behind me.People pass and pay me no mind, their eyes fixed on the ground.Like mice, who know only what their whiskers touch…. When did I join the march of mice.What made me cower, fix my […]

It seems there’s no time for perfectionIf there were, would you wait…. Our good dies youngLeft alone our spirit wanes….Slowly withers…. A spirit, not a man or womanBoth man and womanFrom the hand of God….Not good or badBut both…. The same…. The moment you stop lookingYou find her again….Out of a misty dawnYou see her […]

Of all the ways it could have went but didn’tI miss the ignorance the most.The day I took the time to taste an apple I realized none of this is real.That the bitterness of our fruits is too much to bear.With all its youth stripped away, I admire the rootsFrom which I came.As my own […]