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Meghan Jul 2019
I have an extensive dilemma
Wherein
There’s modest prospect
That dictates obtaining in-depth qualifications
Worthiness to ensure the origination
Seeking nominal negative backlash
In the realm of traditional obligations
From Feb. 2018 I was given a list of words I was no longer allowed to use in writing at my job... so I turned then into this poem.
Meghan Jul 2019
Life is a collection of Post-it Notes
Tiny pieces of paper
making up the collage of my mind.
These days though--
I'm not sure how well the glue is holding
The stickiness is starting to fail
The constant removal,
Rearrangement
Each note's move
Changes the picture,
Changes who I am.

When at last those squares
refuse to stick
Notes come tumbling down
Falling like rainbow colored rain
A final flood of memories --
Then ...
My mind's awash
Thoughts all a- jumble
A gentle breeze,
forceful as a hurricane
Comes to blows the bits away
Post-its scatter like leaves in the wind

All that's left
Is this blank yellow square
Longing to be writ
Once more
I see it firsthand,  I worry about the future,  hold on to every memory, and take the time to create the most I can with the people I love.
Meghan Jul 2019
What reward awaits beyond
What lights shine upon the soul
Those who've suffered long?

Now gone,
Are you running free?
While we grieve, saddened
Crying tears we never let you see

In your place, a candle shines -- but
It will never burn as bright
As the light in your eyes

May you be at rest,  now
Peacefully
Forever
Meghan Jun 2019
The cravings don't go away
Hunger never sated
Watching as we slowly poison ourselves. Does it even matter?
None of us are getting out of here alive. The ugly truth --
we spend every day
getting closer to the grave.
We try to dig our way out of the ground,
Yet do so much
to keep our feet
in that Cemetery dirt.
One foot in the grave,
the other on a cloud.

When that book opens
at the Pearly Gates
and we can truly see our sins,
will we rail against
what we know is true,
what's in our hearts?
Will it shake us to our very core?
Will we beg for another chance, another go 'round the wheel -- promising to do more, be more,
be better, be someone ...
that we know we're not?
Be careful what you wish for.

To be reborn:
Know that there's no knowing the end.

So we get busy being born
and enter the world screaming; because for a split-second,
a Nanobeat in the scheme of time,
we know
we're going to die trying
and trying
and trying.
The beat goes on.
Sunrise, sunset --
days
become weeks,
become months,
become years.
Will we never learn?

We are who we are;
we're what we're supposed to be-- perfect in our imperfections.
So, close your eyes  
...BREATHE
Meghan Apr 2019
Potholes overflow
with rain.  F L O W I N G
                            Toward
                               the Great Lakes ... inland sea
Meghan Jan 2019
I'm like a spider's web
Spun from finest silk
My strength
Unmatched
until Man comes along
He shakes me down
Brushes me off
and
Walks
Right
Through
Meghan Jan 2019
Shaking lips and hips, hands
fingers refuse to move
my feet -- like glue
like I'm the Rat
in a trap
You bowled me over
Shook me up
and plowed right
Through

but in the end
It was just
a kiss to you.
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