*Her words were
like fire to my ears,
poison in my veins.
She triggered
something dark
and dangerous
within me.
Something I struggled
to restrain.
There was something
about her
that made me
feel sad and mad
at the same time.
She was a lone soul
stuck in the midst
of a chaos
she had no control over.*
Jan 2, 2017
Jan 2, 2017 at 1:18 AM UTC
I'm still in love
With the way you took my hand
With how you said my name
I'm still in love
With your toothy grin
With your hearty deep laugh
I'm still in love
With the comforting hugs you gave
With how you wiped away my tears
I'm still in love
With a person already gone
With someone that's been replaced
I'm still in love
With the memories
Because, now, it's all I'll ever have.
Dec 31, 2016
Dec 31, 2016 at 11:09 PM UTC
*I see my entire life
in a quick flicker
of lightning,
I see our entire existence,
from beginning to end,
in a passing cloud.
I see heaven
in the sun's dazzling rays,
glaring through the forest's canopy,
and I see eternity - a deep infinite ocean,
in your eyes.
By Lady R.F ©2016*
Oct 12, 2016
Oct 12, 2016 at 9:57 AM UTC
How do you write about something you can't talk about?
How do you discuss anything, when every wire is tapped?
How do you profess your love or confess your sins, when every confession will lead to a cage.
I need to get out of here.
Just one more job.
Just one more loose end.
Just one more person to pay off.
Just one more dollar.
Just one more bullet.
Just one more tank of gas.
Just one more broken heart.
Just one more funeral.'
Just one more poem, to get through this day.
Oct 10, 2016
Oct 10, 2016 at 3:31 PM UTC
I am champagne bubbles
And fairy wings
And confetti sprinkles
And heart-thudding bass
And dizzy melody
And all the shining city lights that show you the
Way home
I am all these things
And every floating, giddy thought
15 again
For the first time in forever
Painting glitter on every horizon
Because I can't contain the smiles on my lips
Oct 10, 2016
Oct 10, 2016 at 3:29 PM UTC
*It was a night like any other. Then I saw you.
From that moment on, I wanted nothing more to stop and stare at you.
It was painful always having to look up to the heavens to meet your gaze.
But I endured it all.
I constantly wanted to be near you, even if you outshone me in so many ways.
I ran towards you.
But no matter what I did to get closer,
You’d seem much farther away from my grasp.
Then finally after so much I had gone through,
Finally I caught up with you!
I did it.
Then I looked again.
You weren’t as bright as I thought you would be.
I was disappointed.
Things weren’t going the way they were supposed to be.
I took one final last look at you.
Deciding that you weren’t my whole world after all,
I looked up.
I was surprised to see.
You were only one star among millions.
You didn’t outshine everything else after all.
I was just too blind to see,
That you weren’t the only star in the galaxy.*
Oct 10, 2016
Oct 10, 2016 at 3:26 PM UTC
I am a prisoner,
without being confined.
I am a hostage,
Within my own mind.
No walls or wires,
No bricks to detain.
No bars or cuffs,
But still I'm in chains.
Thoughts of you,
Grip me tight.
Throughout the day,
Throughout the night.
I'm in solitary,
Alone as I wonder,
This punishment
I'm under.
You're not my punisher,
But rather my light.
Am I wrong,
Or am I right?
Are you my letter?
My glimpse of home?
Or just a dream,
Inside this dome?
I'm being held captive,
Inside my head.
My mind is racing,
But heavy as lead.
I wait for my freedom.
It's fleeting at best.
Only when you're near,
Is this prison at rest.
Oct 10, 2016
Oct 10, 2016 at 3:15 PM UTC
She walks upon the glass
Forced to maintain a smile,
With the spectators on the sidelines
Chanting mile after mile.
Every step grows
More painful than the last.
Her soul slowly draining
Through the wounds of her past.
Nobody ever told her
The road was paved with glass.
All they ever said was,
"This too shall pass."
That's not a fair warning
And she's too far to turn back.
So she just continues to bleed
Letting her heart turn black.
Oct 10, 2016
Oct 10, 2016 at 3:09 PM UTC
*the hardest
part of
letting someone
you love
go is
making yourself
stay away*
Oct 10, 2016
Oct 10, 2016 at 12:26 PM UTC
Atoms as old as stars,
Mutation on mutation,
Millions and millions of cells
Dividing yet still the same,
From air and changing earth,
From ancient Eastern rivers,
From turquoise tropic seas,
Unto myself I came.
My spirit like my flesh
Sprang from a thousand sources,
From cave-man, hunter and shepherd,
From Karnak, Cyprus, Rome;
The living thoughts in me
Spring from dead men and women,
Forgotten time out of mind
And many as bubbles of foam.
Here for a moment’s space
Into the light out of darkness,
I come and they come with me
Finding words with my breath;
From the wisdom of many life-times
I hear them cry: “Forever
Seek for Beauty, she only
Fights with man against Death!”
Oct 10, 2016
Oct 10, 2016 at 12:25 PM UTC