Best

The best I can do

Is to be the best I can be

To lift my eyes 

And see the light 

To walk with my shoulders back

With my spine in place

With a smiling face

And to see myself 

As the best that I can be 

Opening my Heart

I open my heart

To morning sunshine 

I invite light 

To warm my being 

I welcome peace

To wash over me

Request 

Help me to show love

Help me to be a friend

Help me to share of myself

Help me to give and not only take

Help me to accept and give thanks 

And help me to know it’s not all

About me 

How long?

Until I feel whole again 

Until I am not obsessing every single morning, noon and night 

Until I no longer hope that you will contact me

Until I erase your touch from my memory –

Your sweet delicious lips that got me every single time?

How long?

(Make it go away)

Why?

Remind me

Why I asked you to go

Why I asked you to say goodbye

Why I asked you to leave me alone

Remind me why 

And why, why, why

You happily obliged

Empty


I pushed you away

Now I want you so bad –

Life without you leads

Me to cry into an empty

Bed

Flickering Heart

My heart sometimes

(Whenever)

Skips a beat

Gentle flurries of continuous motion –

The flicker of a flashing light,

It reminds me every time

To count my blessings every day 

To say the words I want to say

To pen the lines I need to write 

Because today might be my very last.