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  Nov 2015 MsAmendable
Bookman
Why are we born unable to fly
To feel the night sky
Why are we born with four limbs
But refuse to crawl

Why do we seek the light
When we are born from the dark
Why do we destroy
In order to create

Why do we sacrifice
Just to see
That the only thing we know
is we don't know anything at all
MsAmendable Nov 2015
Taking comfort in
Each others souls
As the rain pours
Around us
Like ice.
I love you,
Old friend.
I do.
  Nov 2015 MsAmendable
Mfena Ortswen
Surely
The day will be light
Darkness will be night
The wind will blow
While rivers flow
The sun will glow
As night creatures lay low
Why trouble incessantly
With what happens tomorrow
As long as earth remains earthly
All will come and go
MsAmendable Nov 2015
The telltale rattle of old bones
Hangs in the thin night air
From tenuous strings
Of what once was
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