It's not you
    I promise
What I say is true
      He never deserved
           You

     It's not your fault
           I know for a fact
      Trust me
             You are better
          Than a boy like that

It's for the best
       Please,
    Believe me
          He'll do it to the next girl
       And the next
            And next
      You'll find your one
          In this world

        It's time to breathe
             Have faith in what
          I'm saying to you
      This might just be
                Poetry
          But I was cheated on too

It's time to believe
      You're worth more than
   You can see
           No more tears, please
      He's not worth your pain
             You're gorgeous
       And you're NOT to blame

     It's for the best,
              It's not you
          Please,
    Just Breathe.
          Believe me,
  Cause I've made it through.
         I know,
      What I say is true.
             Cause
         **I was cheated on too.

I can drive now with ease
All the way into town
Without being jeopardized
By some slow moving clown

My car's in the parking lot
Close to the market
And I don't walk miles
After I park it

The isles are clear
The checkouts are open
Blessed relief
Till October I'm hoping

Each year they come
And each year they go
But they're hazardous to your health
Cause they drive too **** slow

When you least expect it
They pull out in front of you
Just gawking and talking
Enjoying the view

A car, an RV
Or a trailer that's towed
To them it seems
They're alone on the road

Sometimes I wonder
And that's no jive
Just how in the hell
They got here alive

By my father Robert Bennett

Sometimes your heart needs to be broken
So you can see what's underneath,
To the flicker and flame of your soul
That you've always been destined to meet.

Sometimes your spirit shines brighter
Through the glimmering light of your tears,
And when you arrive at the end of it all
Love will outshine the darkest of years

He invades my Facebook with pleasure

His intrusion is nothing I treasure

I blocked him from my space

He put his friend in his place

To go through and read my post

Reports back to him what I wrote

Stay off my Facebook forever

My life is no longer your venture

So have fun reading this poem

Maybe now you'll leave me alone

I go up
Then go down
My head is spinning around
First I'm gregarious
Then I'm diffident
Chaos starts to begin
As new pages rip in
I get irascible
When people ask me questions
I'm an emciated person
With stress going about
With this bipolar linking on
Tears begin to crowd
To a laughter if mismaze
My relationships are hard
For I cannot keep one
For this bipolar is to strong
I wish I could be normal
And not take pills
But bipolar has controlled me
To my birth to my will
I will have it till the end
Till I'm old and grey
It's going to be a part of me
Forever and today

Autumn colors dance in my mind
As I take my brush in hand
And desperately try to re-create
The beauty God placed on this land

Trees sway gently grass bends low
Caressed by the morning breeze
Can I capture this flood of emotion
And display it before me with ease

My heart is trembling within me
As I labor with deft bold strokes
I must seize this desperate moment
My consuming passion invokes

I feel that God placed this beauty
For me and only for me
To re-create in his image
For all of the world to see

Written by my father
Robert Bennett