Hour 15: Learning to Say No

Pain Blinding Excruciating Impossible to breathe Impossible to speak Pain From my lungs To my heart Only feeling left Of being tore apart And yet When asked if I was okay I said yes Yes I am More afraid of Worrying them Of being a…

Sunset

Sunsets can have  colors of yellow, gold, orange, pink, red and purple. But sunsets can also disappoint with black, grey and white. One is Magical and the other is just plain Dull. Life, like a sunset, can also be either Magical or Dull. Remember that…

“Mindless”

“Mindless” I’m scrolling, mindlessly. My mind absorbing all the messages. The good, the bad, the ugly. Infecting the way I think, Affecting the way I act. Social media is a powerful thing. We must be careful with how it’s used.

Decline

I stubbed my toe walking too close to the turning of the corner   Time does it to me Every way My toes have been broken the way a second hand initially needs to be bent to tick I can feel it slipping and releasing…

[Hour Fifteen]a regret, one decade later

Fifteen, a rare, precious, peach-skin thin age, with a ticket to fly out, far away from home. A few months gone across the sea, to the Isle of Green. Work in a shop, in a foreign land, with friends. But twisted in a toxic relationship,…

Hour 15-I Refuse to get Botoxed

I refuse to get botoxed I don’t want plastic surgery I want to grow old the way the universe intended I want my wrinkles My gray hair My cold sense of humor I could use less creaking I wish my back felt more lively But…

Hour 15

Yes   You never asked the question But I didn’t either And some days I wonder  What would have happened if we had If I said yes where would we be If you said yes where would we be You could have asked  And it…

Hour 15: Eventful Breakfast

When I was young I was very shy Scared to even look people in the eye With my family at breakfast one day I looked up in total surprise. Sitting at the next table Was a group I did admire They saw me shyly glancing…

Rusty

You left no traces I looked no where but your shadow was away Just a sorry could save the dust from rising All eyes are dusty New plates are rusty It was a word to dig the well well