Frances Raeburn

Frances Raeburn Sep 2023

Downtown

I am searching for
New York City
in your eyes
wading deep
in Wall Street lies

Frances Raeburn Sep 2023

Manhattan

Everyone says
in a New York Minute
I’ve been here forever
trust me
it takes
ten years!

Frances Raeburn Sep 2023

Stranger

I have been such
a stranger here
deep inside
the inside of me
did not know
what to say
did not know
who to pay
I have been
such a stranger
here

Frances Raeburn Sep 2023

Tears

Do not try to
dry my tears
they have been weeping
for a hundred years
from my eyes
my mothers eyes
and the eyes of others
long gone
and disappeared

Sep 2023

Mudashi

My Darling

When blue turns to gray,
and everything you believed in goes away.
When your heart cries in ache,
and your eyes can no longer stay awake.
Oh My Darling,
Don't you lose faith
for I'm just a whisper away

Frances Raeburn Sep 2023

I will

I will send flowers
or a plane
if that’s what it takes
just come home
for another minute

Frances Raeburn Sep 2023

Don’t

don’t write me a letter
you know
I never learned how to read