The Poetry Marathon

Poem 4

Inspiration From Millie

Butterflies….

A physical representation of how life unfolds

A visual of how life can make you feel so small

Proof that before you walk you gotta crawl

Most times the ones around you don’t see your worth

They tend to overlook you

They feel you’re not that important on this Earth

Often times they reject you

Still you strive to evolve

You know your journey isn’t over

Even if you have to travel alone

You continue to push forward

As life takes it twist and turns

God promised you new beginnings

This is the moment you learned

About His promises of a beautiful ending

When everyone doubted you

God didn’t bat an eye

He said when I’m done with you

My dear girl you will surely fly

When the world turned away

God stayed

Spun you in His finest silk

Asked you to trust Him and be patient

When you rose again

You didn’t even recognize your own reflection

You may have fell down 9 times, got back up on 10

The world tried to steal your joy but He wouldn’t let them

God knew your worth when you didn’t

Elevated your life to show you that you were different

He changed your life even when you thought He wouldn’t

He designed you to stand out, not to fit in

….Soar high beautiful butterfly

Thank you for calling me your butterfly 🦋

You gave me strength to believe in my growth

Thank you for always seeing my worth

Love you ❤️

Poem 3

A Conversation with my Father

By: Ashley L Powers

Father,

Can you hear me?

It’s your daughter

And I need to speak to you

Father, can we talk for a moment?

I need to spill my heart to you

I’m lost

I’m hurting deep within

My life is in shambles

I don’t even know how or where to begin

The Devil is in overdrive

Ripping my life to shreds

He knows I’m at my lowest

He’s doing everything to push me over the edge

I laugh to keep from crying

When I cry I tend to explode

Lord I’m tired of fighting

I know I can’t get through this alone

I’m sorry I shut you out

You’ve been trying to reach my heart

I let all of the pain cloud me with doubt

Please forgive me for not turning to You from the start

This battle is not mines

You’ve been trying to make me see

The Devil is trying to fill my heart with lies

But I know in Your hands I can be free

Father, can you please take the shackles from my feet?

I’m done with being weighed down

My spirit yearns to be set free

My soul wants to dance to a joyous sound

You’ve been waiting to hear from me

You knew I would come around

Thank you for waiting so patiently

Please forgive me for trying to walk my own path

I place my life in your hands

Thank you for catching me every time I fall

It’s time for me to live my life according to Your plans

Father, thank you for accepting my call

Poem 2

Valentine’s Day

By: Ashley L Powers

February 14th

For many represents a day of love

A time for gifts and dinners

Expected sex, flowers, and hugs

Its the day girls dream of engagements

And men actually put effort into make arrangements

A day I’ve never been too fond of….

Never knew this day would hold any importance

That it would become a date I will always notice

Never knew I love you and goodbye would be in the same sentence

Never knew this date would wake me up and make me pay attention

It’s the day my world fell apart

The day Cupid decided to break my heart

That dreaded phone call

The moment I became truly lost

Screams and tears as I held my phone

Only to hear these words from my sister….

Ashley, she’s GONE

Valentine’s Day….

You stripped away my mother’s love

Damn

I knew there was a reason I was never fond of you

Poem 1

Silently Sad

By: Ashley L Powers

I sit here with frustrated thoughts

My inner fists beating against these walls I’ve built

This is what it must feel like to be in prison

Trapped within the bars of my mind’s cell

I feel like I’m choking, it’s really getting hard to breathe

I truly feel suffocated by the pain

The thoughts, the hurt, flows through me like a ocean

But I can’t swim so I’m drowning

My insides are crumbling

Yet my outside shows no sign of trauma

I let the smile on my face fool everyone

People ask me if I’m okay…

And YES flows from my mouth with ease

But it’s truly taking everything in me not to break down and scream

I want to yell at the top of my lungs…

…HELL NO I’M NOT FINE, HELP ME PLEASE

Why can’t you see that I’m hurting?

I tell myself that no one cares

So I keep everything bottled up

But inside I’m slowly dying

Behind closed doors I’m crying

Waves of emotions that keep pulling me under

Every night that I rest my head

I lay in my own tear filled puddle

But I’m a Pisces so I should be used to it

I just want to be rescued

But there’s no one to save me

I’m fighting myself, trying to stop the tears from falling

My internal dam can’t take all the weight

So it folds under pressure

The cracks I tried to seal are beginning to break

Tears so heavy I can’t focus

But I make sure to wipe them away before you notice

I have to pretend to be perfect

Y’all look at me and see Ashley

I look at me and see half broken…

…heartbroken

I see a woman who’s torn apart from her own confusion

How do I tell the world I’m shattered?

How do I tell the world I feel like I’ve lost everything that mattered?

Until I figure it out

I’ll just keep it to myself

I’ll just keep sitting here staring at these four walls

Suffering….

….dying

Slowing going mad….

….silently sad

Hey everyone my name is Ashley and I am from Ohio. I’m a working mother who has a passion for writing who has kind of lost my way a bit.

I just recently lost my mother and things have been a bit rough for me these past couple of months. It has been a minute since I’ve actually sat down and wrote anything. With the passing of my mother I have so much on my mind and have been needing a way to let things go.

This is my first time participating in something like this so I’m hoping to finish. I wanted to try this because I need a challenge and I believe this will definitely be one. I’m looking to get myself back writing.

I wish everyone luck!