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Elsbeth Poe Nov 2013
If we know that Life is Fleeting
And we know that Love is Time
We know that Time is Energy
And Energy is Life

Now take away our Honesty-
Does Everything then mean Nothing?

E.Poe
*Oct. 2013
Elsbeth Poe Oct 2013
By throwing caution to the wind
I will sing for you
But I'm no fiddle
To be played and laid aside

My heart, My body, My music
I decide

Your eyes, a mirror
The growing light bursting from my fingertips and toes
Causes my shadows to dance across the walls

The energy of a kindergarten classroom bouncing in my body
A spirit  made not to stay stuck to the ground
Dreaming, Stretching, Climbing

Those, my people, define me
Drums beating the rhythm of my motion's design

No sample to be grabbed
Unwrapped
A tester
Then to be put back

When you hold me
Hear the beating
Of this feeling that's my being

What I want to be
Is excited till I'm not, see?
Deserving of my heart
You very well may not be

Unwilling to play
"Do you, Don't you?" The game
Don't shove me
Afraid that I might someday go away
If you push me now
That'll be the choice you made

When it comes to this short precious life
Playtime's ending whistle blows
You do or you don't
You're the only one who knows

The birthplace of fear
To identify
We learn in time
Understanding
Now or then
What it is
While it lives
In the now
Here it is

Giving  faith
We choose our team
To pass a fragile thing
Back and forth
Sharing something new
Me & You
No fear
Just truth

I will love you
Because that's what I do
I will love you
Because I don't know
What else there is in life
But love that's true
Will I find my source in you?

Life is Fleeting
Love is Time
Time is Energy
Energy is Life

Without Honesty
Everything means Nothing

We're off to Never Neverland
But Time keeps moving forward

My happy thoughts will always be the things that make me soar
But who and what and where will be the reason they are born?

E.Poe
*Oct. 2013
Elsbeth Poe Oct 2013
This skin is thin as paper
As thin as treacherous ice
As thin as empty bones of birds
As thin as silk on thighs
This skin seems made for breaking
And yet this skin is mine
thick or thin it's here to stay
And hold my guts inside
Elsbeth Poe Oct 2013
Too simple still
To fall in love
This chest was born wide open

Displaying vital organs
An extraordinary bargin

Then they began to slip away
were broken, cracked, or stolen.

And walls were built and made to stay
But now my heart is swollen

The fear of joy
For all my days
A path that could be certain

Because of that
Potential threat
To this most vital *****

E. Poe
*Oct. 2013
Elsbeth Poe Oct 2013
I like to crack my knuckles
I like to crack my toes
I like to be reminded
That inside we all have bones

I like to crunch on carrots
I like to crunch on chips
I like to break all of the things
In which my mouth admits

I like to hear you whisper
I like that voice I hear
I like to hear your rumble
With your breath upon on my ear
Elsbeth Poe Oct 2013
Change
Is coming now
Filling my lungs and heart

Before I felt it on the way
Change was a beautiful ghost

A whimsical speckle of a prospect
A nonsensical wisp of a dream

Change it brought me back
It poured me back into this shell

A phantom woman crab
Dragging this hollowed body alone for so long
I had forgotten how to move forward

With each heavy clacking step  
my shadow wake is where I found
I left more me behind  

Always ever heavier
While lightening the load

E. Poe
*Oct. 2013
Elsbeth Poe Oct 2013
You need to know,
Darling Girl
That you will always be loved

And that those beautiful blues
Aren't blessings from above

The world's wolves
Won't be able
To see what's beyond them

Say "I'm smart, too."
When they're commenting on them

Sniff out
The true people
With your intuitive nose

Feed your big heart
So it constantly grows

Don't let those
Mean comments
Be a part of your life

Always say
"Wow, that really
Just wasn't so nice."

When you do something hurtful
Take no shame, say I'm sorry

Because delicate feelings
Are the reasons we worry

Connection and friendship
Is why we are living

Choose well
Whom you want
To be constantly giving

Always
Make sure
To express
How you feel

Your instincts have reason
And that's a big deal

Little One,
I sure do
Hope that you
Have been listening

Now take your eyes
Off that phone
Cause this life's
What you're missing

-E.Poe
To her niece Mia Jasmine
*October 2013
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