24 Poems ~ 24 Hours
I fell in, a long time ago
I’m going back now
It’s like a big swimming pool
I have only one desire: to dive in there
Everyone surrounds me
It’s hot, all this love
Let’s dance all the life
Until we fall
All together we fall in
It splashes, nobody stays dry
An ocean of love heat
So glad to fall back
Camera phones out, brandished like weaponry
Pepper the streets around the crime
As if the threat of observation were enough
To stop a violent perpetrator in their tracks,
Quell the wave of the power trip from washing
Over the bulletproof vest, pressed uniform, holstered gun;
And as if the promise of accountability could be distilled
Into one solitary square of communication, freedom.
One knows that in a world where the only power we possess
Is to know what we alone saw and heard and did,
So that when the forces of “are you sure?” and “surely not” –
Bickering and backstabbing, secondguessing and gaslighting –
Crash upon you from an attorney’s confident voice, creating doubt
For everything you do not have clear as solid rock:
In the knowledge of that future time,
All one can do is watch.
Poem 11
Finish Line
By: Ashley L Powers
I can see it
This journey was bittersweet
Unclogged my mind
Allowed me to spill my thoughts
True freedom
It’s so close
I can feel it
I accepted the challenge
I killed it
One more poem to go
The checker flags are waving
It’s over
I MADE IT!
Your name is Janus, and you are not really getting married.
You make the right decision, today, pretending;
Though the months and years ahead
Will be the worst of your life,
Unless the worst yet to come…
What difference does it make?
I am grateful to you that I live
In this moment
Now.
Right here, right now,
Watching a mist descend
Into a valley filled with pines.
Soon, in my hand a glass of wine.
My belly full of lamb, and potatoes.
With thoughts of my precious ones
Who love me still, though they (and I)
Fear what may come from the crazies.
He was a good man before they got to him –
Those hags who thought they would sell you yet again.
Little did they know, you have a heart,
And a soul that could never dig for gold, like them –
Harvesting men like clams on a beach.
He was solid, until they hated him away from you
To fulfill their selfish agenda – that you make them rich.
That you marry the man of their dreams.
How I wish you could tell them “Dream on, hags.”
But you won’t, in your brainwashed sweetness.
You want them to love you and love him, too.
But they won’t, that feigned family.
Family values my ass! What a crock of shit they are!
Oh, how I wish you would have believed who you are,
But you are too kind. You are too pure. Too rational.
Too quick to belief all that you are taught about the world in school –
That perfect world in which people, regardless of position,
Actually do their jobs only to the extent that we assume.
Too duped into the lie that a government of the people
Could never betray a child to such evil as what you endured.
But they did. They betrayed you. And they will continue
As long as you remain a fantasy.
You are too in love with love, of which they have none,
Those wretched evil wenches who exploit you for their daily bread.
I know what they are about to do to you,
And I know you will forgive them – but he won’t.
Your husband. Drunk and stoned today so that he can
Fathom the sick and twisted plans of la familia’s clientele.
He knows, and it makes him sick. More sick than he has already become
Because of them. But he pretends that all is well since that’s what the jet set do.
He loves you, almost. At least as much as he is capable.
He doesn’t want to father your children.
He believes you will not survive to raise them,
And he is almost right.
But you, sweet Joy, are Love.
And Love conquers all.
So thank you, Love.
The sun is about to set
And this bottle of wine
Begs an opening line.
she wept the unshed tears of moths ago
she poured the unspent pain of many moments
she relinquised the love that was in her heart
on that one single moment
she took out the most precious thing that she had
and gave it up
Jimmy and Jeb lived in a loft
Jimmy never paid attention to what things cost
Poor Jeb paid it all
Until he took a fall
and Jimmy’s saprophytic existence was lost
To be lost in thought, a walk down memory road, a lingering idea forgot, what a memory.
I watched from the outside. I never got invited in, to dance and play, still on the outside. They watched.
They laughed and rejoiced at the animals prayer, to be free, to be alive without reason. Mocked and mimicked, lust and loathed, still the animal is seen dancing.
Im on the outside with all eyes on me
Stone pelts,gun shots,killings,
eyes of lost childhood,still,
questioning you and me.
the world awakes,depressed.
The serene mother,
looks bleak,with acid and alkali
flowing over all her veins and arteries,
drying her up.
Life or death,people stood,
confused.
But let’s be hopeful,
once again,
there will always be light at the end of the tunnel!
I was supposed to protect my heart
I wasn’t supposed to give it away
To feel the pain I felt when I first gave my heart away
I was supposed to protect it for falling into the wrong hands
I wasn’t supposed to fall for him
To feel this feelings I felt so long ago but I gave it to the wrong soul
I was supposed to protect it from letting my guard down
I wasn’t supposed to become vulnerable
To feel like he was different from the men I use to deal with
I was supposed to protect it from breaking
I wasn’t supposed to love this hard again
To feel like I actually found someone who could truly love me for me
But i fail my heart tremendously because I didn’t protect it. I gave it away. I let him take it from me. But its not he’s fault because I fall for him and made it easy for him to take the most precious thing from me.
I fail it because I laid my heart on the line
Knowing it will be a possibility it will get broken. But my vulnerable had me thinking if you dont let your guards down how will you every find love.
So to my heart I’m so sorry I let you down. I was supposed to protect you but I thought maybe the right one will find me. But I make this promise to you I will guard you with a purpose that one day someone special will come and protect you.
They will make you forget about that first and let’s pray last heartbreak. They will protect it with all they have. They will make you see, with them you are safe and it will be true love that one and only open handed love. So heart I got you I promise I won’t let you down…
Walking down streets and singing
Nabbing a roll here and telling tales there
I tell Old Nanny May there is dirt upon her dress
And giggle while she looks
I pretend to throw the dogs a stick
And chuckle while they chase air
This is a poem I might need to come back to. I just can’t figure out where I should go from here. I like the idea of it, but it feels like something is missing.