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Melinda Barrett Jul 2016
I've always read about people who lived in far away places. Always had my head in the clouds, my nose in a book. Settle down they say. How can I settle when I've never belonged here? This isn't my path. I'll have to blaze my own. Pieces of my heart are scattered in far away places and I'm meant to find them.
Melinda Barrett Jul 2016
They try to break my stallion spirit
They only do so cuz they fear it
They want me to conform for them
They'll never get me, stupid men
Melinda Barrett Jul 2016
Anyone can marry their high school sweetheart. Don't try to sell me on your watered down version of a fairy tale. Like it's some sort of an accomplishment, locking yourself in a dark room and pretending there isn't an entire world out there. That's like painting with only one color the rest of your life. I want to experience first hand every aspect the rainbow has to offer. I want to know how red and yellow make me feel. I want to try green on for a summer. I want to be absolutely sure that orange isn't for me. I want to find just the right version of blue. I'll spend the rest of my life searching the depths of the earth for deep violet if it means I'll never settle for the first color I tried on. By the time you realize you're over red, I'll be well on my way to indigo horizons.
Melinda Barrett Jul 2016
Sunrise sunset
Don't drown urself in so much regret
The hours pass the days fly by
Your waiting on yourself to die
Breathe in breathe out
Don't burden urself with so much doubt
Searching for someone you wish you knew
Time is an obstacle don't let it deceive you
Look up not down
You got to keep swimming or you'll drown
The search is over the suspense is lost
Ur life is fleeting we all pay the cost
Good morning good night
Don't perish before you give up the fight
Darkness doesnt always suppress the light
Melinda Barrett Jul 2016
I felt vulnerable so I reached out
But you cut off my hand
I felt empty and drowned in my tears
While you remained on dry land
I felt nostalgic so I wrote about it
but you never heard my plea....
So I learned how to swim and
Floated in my sad sea
Melinda Barrett Jul 2016
How barren a stranger has made me feel
Like everything I touch isn't for real
How I can't even sleep or take a meal
Filled with regret signing the devils deal
Melinda Barrett Jun 2016
I hid her from the worlds display
Behind the fortress you chipped away
All for nothing, just so you could say
You didn't like her anyway.
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