Hey, you know what paradise is? It’s a lie
A fantasy we create about people and places as we’d like them to be
Charlene – I’ve Never Been To Me
Category poetry
Self-Discovery
Understanding myself
Is the only way
To get over
You
Angelic
The best part of today
Was an angel bird
Singing angelic songs
To a waking world
Where are You?
It was yesterday
When you took my breath away
It was yesterday
When you lifted me off my feet
It was yesterday
All those memories behind me
And now today
You are nowhere to be found
Snowmen
I scratched my fingers
Against the door
I scratched until they
Were red and raw
The door stayed closed
The lock unturned
The blinds kept down
My love returned
I had to go
I could not stay
I had to leave
Just turn away
I left then
And I let go
Of frozen men
In melting snow
The first line inspired by a comment by the beautiful Erika Kind and the rest just popped out.
Lost Friend
Oh my friend
Why did you leave me
Oh my friend
Why did you go
I wanted you to stay
So badly
I wanted you to stay
With me
You are gone
And I’m alone
You have gone
I miss you so
For Nia
Insecurity
I lost my sparkle
And it stopped sparkling
How do I get my sparkle back?
Vow
I made a vow
To love and hold
Until one dying day
So I love you
And always will
More than words can say
14 years today
Pendulum
When you rang the bell
Then ran away
When you kissed so sweetly
And turned the key
When you slammed the door
Then came back for more
I wonder, oh, I do
What I ever saw in you
And why, oh, why
Do my thoughts still
Swing your way
What did I ever –
What could I have ever
Seen in you?
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