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********* Have I traded small safety and daily comforts to sell out the passion and the possibilities of my life Did I ransom my adventures and the wilder purpose to be the someone I hoped for in the corner of someone's eye Did I collect my best days only to heal my rainy days did I tell myself mythologies and stories to bulldozer-over the days in which I cried Do I wish now I could fish now cast my pole further, much farther and hook onto the distant dreams the ones I've mostly slept on daydreamed in cobwebs seen in foreign films caught a corner-glimpse of felt the tremors of excitement in the burnings of my heart or of my thighs Was my take-away the easier way maybe the cowardly way or did I live your dreamland why couldn't be mine... somehow thinking I required the Gods'permission to reach for something I desired in my secret place made of me a Babylonian the walking street woman a lost Amelia Earhart of destiny's lore It is hard to be a woman they say but the are of a woman not to be the one with a daring hoping heart to rise above some designated sex's station to dare beyond myself to lose my lonely childhood shame and not barter with the lies my family told To seek and be finally found out might someone in this universe become both... a heart-friend and my lover-half... I wasn't searching but now I desire to be bold here is my older heart here in my golden heart reaching out across the precipice of time and space there in your long heart I'd like to reach out now so hoping to be shown. LEGAL COPYRIGHT FOR THIS POEM 12/12/2021 12:02pm PACIFIC STANDARD TIME TIME AND DATE STAMPED TO MAKE INDELIBLE AND ALSO FOR THIS POET/WRITER MELISSA A. HOWELLS AND ALSO FOR THIS LEGALLY COPYRIGHTED AND REGISTERED SITE TITLE: MELOO STRAIGHT FROM HER TILT-A-WORLD Re-edited 12/12/2021 4:21PM PACIFIC TIME TIME AND DATE STAMPED INDELLIBLE ******************************************************************************** NOTE TO THE READER: YOU CAN SUBSTITUTE PRONOUNS HERE TO READ THE POEM IN A WAY WHICH IS MOST MEANINGFUL...THERE'S A UNIVERSALITY HERE...YOU CAN SUBSTITUTE YOU OR OUR INSTEAD OF USING THE PERSONAL "I." I EDTITED TO THE 'I' BECAUSE THIS IS A PERSONAL POEM AND MESSAGE FOR ME. BUT IT WAS SUGGESTED THAT THE USE OF 'OUR' MIGHT BE MORE UNIVERASALLY MEANINGFUL. THANK YOU B FOR THE SUGGESTION. Vote for this poem |
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