#easylosehardgain
ThePoet's challenge
easy lose/hard gain
A part of your heart surely dies
When a loved one tells a lie
Trust is easily debased
And is not easily replaced!
Mar 12, 2015
Mar 12, 2015 at 2:37 PM UTC
Little by little
She earns and watches it crumble away
Quicker than she could blink
Faster than she could save
To laugh and cry at the same time
Desperation and relief all rolled into one
All is well until the next utility bill comes along
And so mundane hours begin once again
Double shift
Still never enough
Hand to mouth
That's all she's ever known
A little bump and she falls off the treadmill
Jan 31, 2015
Jan 31, 2015 at 4:18 PM UTC
*It only presents her self, as a soul,
Peering through your window,
Sharing sympathies with the wind.
But your so busy in dreaming,
Reliving forgettable mirages,
Illusions into fruition.
How many meteors or stars,
Have passed you by?
How many hearts?
How many Why-s do you
Have to burn?
And so your prayers worked,
But your faith didn't.*
© 2015 J.S.P.
Jan 30, 2015
Jan 30, 2015 at 7:17 PM UTC
It was innate
My ability to resonate
Thoughts upon my birth
When I was a child
My mind ran wild
Over Heaven and Earth
As a teen
You best mind, I was mean
Not much, my thoughts were worth
As a married man
My mind did span
Until my first child's birth
Then it started to slip
My mind did rip
And began to spill upon the Earth
Now that I'm old
Thoughts I can't hold
What are memories worth
Where are my car keys?
What?
Jan 30, 2015
Jan 30, 2015 at 4:38 PM UTC