24 Poems ~ 24 Hours
Not given a choice
a homeless pet,
captured and kept
her fate had been set.
A kiss on her nose
a final farewell,
one night as a pet
a normal day met.
What could she do?
a sarifice yet,
for science she went.
to the stars she’d been sent.
What were her thoughts?
her fear had been great,
she couldn’t guess when
her life would end then.
I really couldn’t say
What happened to me
Where this person I’ve become
Spawned from
But I know something’s not right
Most days I get by
I can smile and laugh
Convince them it’s alright
When deep down inside me
I’m struggling just to breathe
I’m a mess, but I’ll try
To keep my chin up
And hide it all from you
Because I know how much
It hurt you to see me that way
So I’ll put on an act
I’ll keep smiling
So you feel at ease
It wasn’t always this way
The truth is
I used to be fine
I wish I could just be me
Wish I could just scream it all out
Tell you how much it kills me
To see you behaving this way
And yet I’m expected to be okay
It isn’t fair
It’s a mess, but I’ll try
To keep my thoughts to myself
And pretend nothing you say
Really troubles me
It hurts to see you this way
But I’ll put on a brave face
I’ll keep smiling
So you feel at ease
It wasn’t always this way
The truth is
We used to be fine
poem 16
Loss
I’m at a loss
When I think about love
Not who I am
Not who I love
Or who loves me
Or what I love
But being in love
Cause it meant so much
And I didn’t know
Now there’s a gap
That cries out to be filled
For All that it was
For all that we had
And couldn’t see
But I believe it was real
As real as this black hole within
So whenever I think of love
I mean being in love
I think now
How I lost everything
that could have been
Since you’re no longer
here
my angel on earth
Poem 15
Alice in Wonderland
(Motivational Speech)
The tiny shall be transformed into giants
conquering any impossible thing
That can be thought of in the blink of an eye
For if it can be conceived
indeed can be achieved
Smile in the face of the unknown
and the neighbouring spasms of insanity too
and that which lurks behind twinkling eyes
And flattering smiles
Profound are the insane
bearers of hidden insight
And perspectives beyond parallels
Life is all about being you
It’s about what’s in the heart
Where everything matters
not the versions of you others see or demand to be real but the version inside
True and true
At The Circus
Baraboo, Wisconsin beams
red, yellow, lime green with promise.
Rain pours so hard it drowns
the circus, floods the streets, the tents,
the Rudolph noses and ghost-
white diamonded faces. Water
swallows the swinging trapeze,
the unnetted tightrope. Tigers
and elephants are gobbled
by Noah’s ancient waters.
Sometimes it gets tedious
To exist here.
Then I travel
To meet my lucky stars.
I fly to the moon
Right beside my cluster.
Every night i weave my webs
Star to star
Sparkle to sparkle.
Existence here
It loses the spark.
I fly up there
To gather some flames.
Rocking my star web hammock
Breathing the universe
I feel the nebulas tingling on my skin.
A comet flies past
Setting aflame my tresses
Tucking meteors beneath my breast
I bring back a planet or two.
This is what I need to exist with sanity.
Right to the moon and back.
Have a seat;
You’ve had an awfully long day.
Look at that frown.
Look at those shoulders,
Sagging and droopy.
You’ve got bags under your eyes,
And you look pretty miserable to me.
Here, try some of this stuff.
There, look at you now,
Smiling and dopey.
Laughing at me even now.
Doesn’t that feel better?
Don’t you wish things could be this way,
For the rest of your life?
Uh oh,
You’re coming down.
Steady now,
Don’t be irritated.
Here, have some more.
There you go.
There’s that goofy grin.
Don’t you love this shit?
This is some good shit.
Just fall asleep,
And you can try again tomorrow.
I was laying down to sleep
In the house you once called home
And I heard your voice
Asking me what I was doing there
I don’t know how to answer you
And the others would think me crazy if I said this
But…
Are you here?
Can you hear me?
If I reached out far enough
Could I reach you?