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Elizabeth Jan 2014
I wish to be remembered as wise beyond my age
I wish to transfer a legacy of laughter and happiness
I wish to keep within my friends the originality I held in myself

That originality,
In a 5'1" woman it towers over McKinleys and Everests alike
It kept me from conformance
It shielded me from mainstream virtues

If nothing else, keep alive my ability to stand out
Through my laughter
Through my love
But keep in mind these things within yourself
For what be the point of my existence if I could not progress the world into a better state

As I dive into an abyss
And leave my kin
My soul missing its housing
And my fingers lose their feeling
My mind loses meaning
But my body never leaving

Just remember that as I lay dying
I wish only for my song to carry
As it resonates in liquid minds of children

As I lay dying
Carry on my verse
And recite the prose of my wisdom
For the sponges
Inspired by a quote from Walt Whitman (uncle Walt).
Elizabeth Jan 2014
While they sleep
A production factory manufactures
Realms of imagination-walls of candy and floors of chocolate
Sugar plum dragons battle anaconda licorice ropes


Learn from the mind of a child-creativity is God's largest gift to all. Embrace it.
Elizabeth Dec 2013
Rivers flowing down
Down to the ends of the Earth
Carrying me too
Written when I was in 6th grade
Elizabeth Dec 2013
On my back I lay
Counting the stars till morning
Wishing on each one
Elizabeth Dec 2013
With the ferocity of a lion
The blood of an Englishman
The angst of a pure-breed rotweiler,
She forced upon herself the truth behind all her lies
The secrets which she kept hidden under security blankets, locked in the vaults of her ancients' pasts

In the raging fire, in the blessed fire she spoke the truth, her truth

A blessing so sacred an angel shames away

A time of love gone wrong, broken tragedies the strongest weep at

She leaped forward, aching to project her knowledge of enlightenment to her world
But she had to start at the bottom
She had to first get her disciples to just listen

With an idea so powerful it possessed the ability to change the world,
She sat dormant with the information that could break walls, heal wounds, and erupt stars
Nobody understood the power,
A girl cannot grasp the world in such a manner,


Oh the doubts of mankind. Bless the children gifted from God to inherit the ability to mystify, to entertain.

Give them the courage of the tiger, let them explode through the fangs of the jaw, let them wrestle the tongue of this beast and conquer
Take the reins and converse the knowledge people believe you don't possess, and prove them wrong eternally
Elizabeth Dec 2013
I hate to love you
But each day I try to stop
I grip harder still
Elizabeth Dec 2013
Don't you find Christmas a little askew in its purpose?
We remember a man who, born on this day, walked the Earth some two thousand years ago
                   By burning pockets with gift giving,
       Decorating a door frame with a $70 wreath which will die in two weeks,
           Stuffing our faces with high fructose desserts and fat filled ham
   Competing for the brightest tree (also going to die in two weeks) and the loudest outside decorations
                                                     ­                 Did we forget the homeless man on the corner who can't even buy a sock?
                                       Who would give anything for that one sock, perhaps even another sock
                   Why is Christmas a competition
                              What happened to Cindy Lou Who, who asked where Christmas was and why she couldn't find it
                                                      I seem to think that Christmas should be much the same as Thanksgiving,
       But I am the only one,
  As we continue to spend thousands of dollars each year's end
                                                             ­   And soil what God intended originally for these twenty four hours
                                            Maybe, just maybe,
                      Spend a little less ******* money on your family,
         And spend a little more time with them
                                      It's all that homeless man could ask for,
                                      Besides that sock
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