Laura Duran: Favorites

Oct 2019 Laura Duran

B L Costello

Found in the dark,
You were not alone,
Somebody killed you
In your home
You were only six,
You will never be seven,
But everyone is pretty in heaven
Beauty queen,
You won the crowns,
It did not help when they held you down,
I think of you,
It makes me crazy
23 years,
You’re still a baby,
But, somebody knows what happened to you,
Because...somebody did it
The world may never know….
Because...somebody hid it
RIP JonBenét August 6, 1990 – December 25, 1996
©B L Costello 2019

RIP JonBenét August 6, 1990 – December 25, 1996
23 years.....she would be 29 today.

#the #truth #is #out #there

Oct 2019 Laura Duran

SITTING SHIVA

Oct 2019 Laura Duran

B L Costello

SITTING SHIVA

“I will love you forever”,
He said to you,
But when forever is over,
What do you do?
And what is forever, when someone is gone?
Without the clock,
Does time go on?
How do we measure the weeks and days,
When the calendar is taken away?
Numb,
I can hardly tell I am here,
So many chairs,
The covered mirrors,
Time to ponder,
Time to accept,
In 7 days,
I will reflect
B L Costello © 2019

Oct 2019 Laura Duran

Her

Oct 2019 Laura Duran

zak

Her

words moved me, and
God
i wanted my fingers to blister and my
bones to ache
but my mind withers and my heart breaks
i swallowed ink and still i couldn’t
make the words flow like they used to as if
almost as if
they refuse to

Oct 2019 Laura Duran

My life

Oct 2019 Laura Duran

Naceur Ben Mesbah

My life

My life's book has no title
Every day is a new chapter
A battle with the unknown
A refusal of their common
My life is mine
So I am the title

Oct 2019 Laura Duran

The Artist.

Oct 2019 Laura Duran

Naceur Ben Mesbah

The Artist.

I still remember the day
I said it
When I was kneeling
Touching your feet
I love you dear
Being away from you
Makes me fear
You are the first
And the last
You are the world
That's my only word
Tears rolling over my cheeks
Have made of me an artist
An artist who paints with his tears
Your portrait is not for sale
Cz I am your only male.
Without you I am nothing
Your presence is like wings
Making me fly so high.
You made me someone
When all people around
Saw me no one
But something.

Sep 2019 Laura Duran

Amen!

Sep 2019 Laura Duran

calpurnia mockingbird

Amen!

Too long have I suffered silently
within a silken chrysalis of deceit
Today I rise in bejeweled glory
soaring above all that has rendered harm.
Above the black I glide in colour
my truest form revealed.
Such joy unbound has come to pass
My heart sings at its revelation!
"I am more!" I cry to a thousand singing echoes
"This world is mine and life, it's best reward!"

Sep 2019 Laura Duran

Definition of Injustice

Sep 2019 Laura Duran

L B

Definition of Injustice

"If you have too much, You probably have someone else's"

The first time I heard this, I was stopped by the purity of its truth. Thought about it a long time. It does not matter if you earned it by the sweat of your brow, If your inherited it, won a card game, or came into a streak of luck. In the whole world there is only so much wealth. Those who control it have huge responsibility to give--to consider others. It is those with resources who must affect the changes for good because money always moves toward more money. It moves away from poverty. The way it is. That's all. Reading today how someone is afraid to give up to taxes from what she earned or inherited-- or what grows by itself in the field of usury.

"...Them that't got shall get; them that's not shall lose
So the Bible says, and it still is news
Momma may have....and Papa may have
But God bless the chile that got his own
that got his own...." --Billy Holiday, "God Bless the Chile"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_1LfT1MvzI

Sep 2019 Laura Duran

NOT A HERO

Sep 2019 Laura Duran

Traveler

NOT A HERO

I keep no medals
Nor pictures of back then
I'm no longer a warrior
I have no wish to defend...
In fact, I'm forced to run
Unable to hide
Cameras and drones
Fill my minds eye’s

(Truth is)
I once saved my ship
From sinking
I found a hole
And stopped it from leaking
Somebody up on deck
Got the credit
Even the ships new paper
Refuse to edit

I never needed
A notch in my gun
When the cops yell stop
I'm the first to run
I've done more time
Then I care to claim
I've always been innocent
I just keep getting framed

And still
My love is as big
As the setting sun
If you cry out
Here I come
Yet I no longer feed
On excitement
And speed
A warrior
I no longer wish to be!

Traveler Tim

#usnavy

Sep 2019 Laura Duran

Milestones

Sep 2019 Laura Duran

Heavy Hearted

Milestones

I would like you to stay.
Stay where you've always been-
Where I once was. I would like you to stay
Here
With me. And I know that it is wrong and
Selfish
to even express
How still I long for you to stay- but I cannot bare the bruise
Of another milestone
Whipped at my head
though they're not even mine.

I never thought I would become all that I now am. I never thought I was this capable of hurting myself. I never thought I would be this alone surrounded by all the things I love and understand. I never thought this would happen so early on;
The great distance left bearing only heavier weights.

So I'll take whatever milestones I can
And abuse their theoretical beauty

The sleep

and breaking of my bones-

My last and final duty.

#milestones #brothers #school #leaving #pain #waste #time #life