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Essa Freedom May 2016
Run
What are you running from?
What are you running to?
Is it the past?
Maybe the future?
The tears?
The memories?
Why do you run?
Essa Freedom Mar 2016
I miss you
I really do
Not a day passes by when I don't think of you
I miss the emails
And the way I used to always look forward to Monday's
And the way I could count on a smile just by seeing a new email...
From you
The times have changed and the emails have stopped
My faith in you remains
While my faith in God wavers
Surely if God want all of his children happy he wouldn't have let you forget
Forget about me that is
I do not blame you for not remembering me
You have important work while i have none
Yours Truly
A waiting Me
Essa Freedom Dec 2015
How much longer until you come home?
You're here physically
But you're still not the same
What happen over there
What changed?
How long until they send you home?
My big brothers still missing
Your\ just haven't been the same since you've came home
Its been five ears
Almost six
How much longer are they going to keep you from me
I miss you
I'm waiting as long as it takes
*How much longer until you come home?
My older brother went to Afghanistan... It's been year since he's come home but mentally he may never be the same... I just want the old him back...
Essa Freedom Dec 2015
December is a time when most people celebrating
Whether it be Christmas
Kwanzaa
Hanukkah
Or whatever it is you celebrate
For me it's a cruel reminder of what January brought
A warning I ignored until it was all too late
We spent everyday together all month long
But after December passed and January came....
I got a call and that was that
Death took him away
On that cold January fifth
Three years ago
Essa Freedom Oct 2015
I dream when I'm asleep
I dream when I'm awake
I dream about the future
I dream my hero
And how far away he seems
I dream of a escape from this ordinary life
Essa Freedom Aug 2015
Today I learned a lesson
Not a fun one I suppose
I stood in front of my hero
As he told me two things
According to him
I have made a stupid choice
As well as hearing that
I heard another thing
He insulted what I believe in
I once waited a year for him to come home
Now I wait to hear what I hope for most
To hear him say he is proud of me
Someone hearing their hero
Insult them and call them stupid
**Is a pain I would not wish to my worst enemy
Essa Freedom Jun 2015
Most people don't get it
Why they leave
But I do
And I love them for it
They leave home
Two years male
Eighteen months female
But they leave the life behind
So that others can still be with their family
For eternity
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