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Amanda Shelton Jan 2020
If you knew how hard you’d fall
would you change?

If you knew the Earth would
fight would you change?

What cause and effect would
make you want to change?

If you choked on a cigarette
would you change?

If the sun burnt your head
would you change?

Upon these times you live
like a shadow amongst other
shadows, all slowly fades
into the night.

Would you change if needed?

We all make mistakes,
we all grow and develop,
we all go back to the wind
to live our lives.

Upon the rising sun
I am reminded of my
future and song.

I am a writer
a recorder of life,
through poetry I breathe
twice, once in body
again through poetic lines.

© 2020 By Amanda Shelton
Amanda Shelton Jan 2020
Upon your lies you built
our relationship, it’s
foundation is too fragile
to support our lives together.

You make excuses to use
broken ideas and evil
blueprints all in the name
of addiction.

You replaced me with
the devil, you cheat on
me with your sinful ways.

You said okay
to everything but
never do what you
agreed to.

You act like I should
forget what you do
but you don’t care
about my faith.

I forgive you
but that doesn’t mean
I should forget.

You know right from wrong
but you choose to lie to
everyone including God.

If you are faithful
you wouldn’t do harmful
things.

I’ve been supportive of you
but not your bad behavior.

You are lying to yourself
if you expect me to stay
and watch you slowly waste
away.

It hurts my heart
to watch you lie
and have no shame
for what you do.

© 2020 By Amanda Shelton
My boyfriend is dealing with addictions. He went to his dad's house for Christmas and came back to abuse me and go backwards on his road to recovery. He keeps lying about it after he just went out to get a fix. He blocked me after I asked him why did he buy the items if you wants to be clean? That's a sign someone knows they are guilty. If you ask someone something and they block you without any reason, that's a guilty response. If they are honest they would answer the question without attitude. If you are honest why would you get upset instead of answering the question? Also, he said he wasn't thinking when he steals from me. Yet to steal you have to plan it. He left me on his couch while he was supposed to go to the store but a long the way he goes to my place to steal from me. I knew what he did because I have a sense I know someone is honest also I can see everything they do through their eyes as if I am dreaming. I can't explain it except for I know things that I don't need to be there to know. Like people's intentions I have the ability to see it. Also the way he stole from took a lot of thought. He even admitted it to me later after I told him he can't lie to me because I know. He knows I know. I am supportive of him but not his bad behavior. Please pray for him.
Amanda Shelton Jan 2020
Upon the hot beams of sunlight
I bring my heart as the dawn
beckons me to your arms.

I am reminded of your memory
as mornings first breathe
is taken upon my senses it
rises as I awaken.

That like a seed
love grows and roots
itself upon our bed
of hearts building
a plot for the future.

The roots grow stronger
with the struggles and
adventures we experience
together.

Upon loves flight we are its capulets
of two star crossed lovers.

A poetic love like no other.

© 2020 By Amanda Shelton
Amanda Shelton Dec 2019
Upon my pillow I left
my sorrows, soaked with
tears my dreams drown
my pain.

As the shadows lengthen
and slowly steals the light
I lit my candle as a reminder
of the burning passion
we have for each other.

We are never too far apart,
for the strings attached to
our hearts fell the spaces
between us with
beautiful music.

As the sun sets upon
the night, each star that winks
is a reminder of our love
we have for each other.

Your memory never fades,
for our hearts are rooted
deeply in loves chasm.

© 2019 By Amanda Shelton
Amanda Shelton Dec 2019
Love is a dream that is
too afraid to live
beyond sleep but still
awakens.

Love is a passion that
burns like a candle
lit for the broken hearts
as a reminder of its beauty.

Love is like a snowflake
it comes upon a breath of
change that becomes a reminder
of the coming days.

Love is powerful,
it can break in its
fragile state but it also
heals and brightens the night
with its brilliant ideas
and powerful wave.

Love is like a river
it flows through the
mountains and valley below
with its powerful pressure
it moves earth causing change.

Love can move mountains,
waken dreams, and brighten
the darkest of days.

Love is available to all
who embrace its touch
with open arms.

© 2019 By Amanda Shelton
Amanda Shelton Dec 2019
Upon the falling rain
lives my heart,
with the broken beams
of light pain fades away,
with a passing breeze
the clouds depart
revealing your face.

Oh love, how I miss you.
Let me remind you
I will never forget you
and your forget me not kisses
and embraces.

Love lasts as long as you
embrace its memory.

Far from this place once lived
two lonely hearts, between
the empty spaces they
collided like two falling stars,
filling every inch with
passion and beating heartstrings
playing their song.

You never fade;
you forever live within
the empty spaces between
light and dark, for
you are a brightening star.

© 2019 By Amanda Shelton
Amanda Shelton Dec 2019
Beyond tomorrow
onto the marrow
lives my sorrow
and pain.

It’s always flooding
with rain and the clouds
never fade. Yet I am
a survivor and brave.

I bring my umbrella
and meditation with great
breathing techniques
to help me through the
hard times.

Sometimes the shadows
settle for awhile, I’ve
learned to be calmer and
at peace with restful nights.

Within my restless hours
I am inspired, deeply
expired yet not tired
enough to sleep.

My weathered mind
tick’s on upon
the last hours of
the nightly dreams
I should be experiencing.

Yet I become one of the
shadows lurking about
the dark. Not extinguished
for I still burn bright
like my past bridges
I’ve left behind.

No regrets but embarrassments
light up my cheeks.
We all of those blushing
moments like these.

Beyond the sun’s ray
I come riding on the moons
beams. I am a star upon
the stage just for awhile.

Long breathes drag on
hour after hour,
line by line, beyond
the horizon of tomorrow
lives my tears and sorrows.

Fading with the light
raising upon my return to
life.

Good morning my marrow.
What tithings you bring
of golden rays and silver
linings. Ting!

© 2019 Amanda Shelton
Good morning my fellow Poets.
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