Poem 024 – Remember
I remember bright blue skies, fresh country air, and the sound of children playing in the backyard. Before the troops moved in, the burning buildings, the horrible, horrible screaming. Why won’t it end? Why won’t it just stop?
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Poem 023 – So I Jumped
Stop said my wounded heart, I cannot take another hit. Wait said my head, this is ludicrous, silly, just quit.
Poem 022 – Bitter Sweet Bliss
He whispered my darling through the lush of his lips, Delicious words that scorched; burned bittersweet bliss. He spoke my love with such tender release, Numbed my conscience the ravenous marvelous tease.
Poem 021 – When Love was Love
If I could climb back through time, slip away out of sight, I would fly back to the time when love was love and all that mattered was the two of us.
Poem 020 – Camaraderie
Honey dry your tears, don’t cry, Let your smile rise with the eastern sky, Let it warm your belly as you writhe, In highs of sunny days when birds fly.
Poem 019 – Introverted
Your laughter cuts me, punctures flesh and bone, Your stares punch me, scatter focus and prong.
Poem 018 – You’re Not a Freak
They punch they slap, they hit they kick, But all the while you sniffle you think,
Poem 017 – Take the Day
Take the day and drop it in, sprinkle hope to make it sweet, A dash of sadness for lulls that be, don’t worry, it’s still incomplete.
Poem 016 – Linger
/ˈlɪŋɡə/ verb – stay in a place longer than necessary because of a reluctance to leave.
Poem 015 – I am Home
I stand weightless at the edge of my pain, overcome, disdained, Close my eyes and I am falling, unable to catch myself, not stopping,