Memory

 

What is it for you?

Does it make you who you are?

Interpretation!

 

Poet in Training

 

I used to be a crummy poet,

I never could find the right scheme.

Then, potential I never expected would show,

I realized that all I had to do was find a theme.

 

Your love has helped me learn.

Your love has helped me yearn.

A once lost poet now runs free,

Never again to be trapped in me.

 

Progress

 

Life really makes me wonder.

Life really makes me ponder.

 

Yesterday, I learned that life was ending.

Today, I learned of life's new beginning.

 

There is only one that can make me happy.

And tomorrow, I'll learn she lives within me.

 

School

 

Pens, pencils, paper.

Books, backpacks, lunch boxes.

It comes and goes each year.

We rejoice when it starts,

And once again when it ends.

So many levels and so many friends.

Yet we often wonder

If it will ever end.

 

Questions?

 

Who am I?

I have to keep asking myself, "Who am I?"

Some days it seems so clear, while others

seem filled with nothing but fear.

 

Who are you?

You people who love to ridicule what I do.

What makes you so much better than I?

Why must I be the subject for your jokes.

 

Is it just me?

Am I the one who's just too critical of you?

Maybe I should just release myself of these chains.

I'll be me and you be you and in harmony we'll be.

                                                       9/21/10

 

The Real You

 

Find who you are and never disguise it.

Always remember the love you've been given.

 

Someone you know will see you and love you.

Hopefully you followed my words and showed your true self.

 

I look forward to the day you say, "I do."

Only you need to make sure those words are true.

 

Love, Hope, and Truth

 

Somewhere out there lies a wishing well,

Inside you will find love, hope, and truth.

Send not someone else to find them,

Simple things like those can often be lost or stolen.

 

You will find them and know they are true.

Wishes aren’t simple; rather complex ideas.

 

If you have hope you will never need wishes.

Love will show you all the people you need.

Show these people the love and hope you posess.

Only then will they see the truth that lies in your heart.

 

Never worry if they for get to show you how much they care.

That worry belongs to them, not you, dear friend.

 

                                                                                                    8/26/07

Happy Birthday

I hate you. You have turned me into someone who is not me.
Why should I ever love you when you destroyed me?
Oh so it's still someone else's fault?
When will you ever grow up and be a man?
I'm not sure if you even can.

At a half a century, I thought you'd finally realize
I won't let anyone push me around cause of my size.
I'm not your little girl anymore.
Thanks to you I never will be again,
But always alone will be my pain.

                                             9/18/10

Abandonment 

 

What it must be to go through life,

Never knowing, never understanding,

The pain of your child contemplating life.

 

Hopes and dreams crushed corner after corner.

The pressure to be perfect always weighing.

Always cautious to accept another.

 

They say, "So many love and depend on you!"

Well can't you see that's the problem I face?

Their needs are so overwhelming, I forget mine.

 

"Why can't you just spend time with me?" I ask.

I can no longer feel your love.

Distance has slowly separated you and me.

 

Break away! Show me you care!

I know. They're depending on you too.

Go ahead. Tend to them. I'll always be here.

 

You can hope. You can pray.

But I know it may be untrue. 

One day, by choice, in a coffin I'll lay.

 

Does it have to be this way?

Of course not, it's all by choice.

Maybe you'll understand before that day.

 

I hope. The pain is too hard to bear alone.

A hug, even a day just for us would help.

I know your heart is far from made of stone.

 

Yet, never included in your plans am I.

Do what you need to help.

Everything pleasing to the mortal eye.

 

God help me! Break the pain I bear!

Make tomorrow a new day.

Help people understand my cares.

 

I don't want to abandon. Help is my cause!

But I know I must change,

Or cause the pain of being forever gone.

 

Help them to understand my reasons.

Broken inside I remain,

Until I have learned to face my demons.

                                             4/12/10