Poetry From the Edge
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Branches in Time
Branches in Time
by
Melinda Everett
Someone someplace has won the lottery.....
Someone somewhere lives in the bushes....
Someone sometime buys his first car...
Someone some town walks in broken shoes...
Fate plays a prejudice tune
Man can choose what he can do
But not what happens to him
Every choice a branch on a tree
Every action a change in the path
Where is it you want to go?
Can you see what you decide will bring you to a place?
Everyone in the human race decides where time leaves a trace
What do you want in your soul?
What do you dream in the night?
How is your shalom?
Did you find your way home?
Someone surrounds himself with sadness....
Someone embraces himself with joy....
Someone wraps himslef in anger....
Someone encompasses himself with love....
Emotions stimulate and motivate
But decisions lead the way
Your town boarders the next...
No distance protects from the waves you create
Infliction cripples in pooling traps
Love fress and illuminates!
Eve's Fruit
Eve's Fruit
by
Melinda Everett
by
Melinda Everett
How can I love you?
Knowing that you are breaking my heart
Taking me apart
Brick by brick
My layers are undone
You're suppose to be my rock
But you're a snake
That bites.
The poison flowing toward my beating pulse
I need a cure from this inflicted illness
It is killing love
It is stealing life.
That precious thing you had twisted
It isn't alive anymore.
It is rotten and stinking,
Food for the worms,
How can you cause this death?
How can you live with it?
Stop hurting me!
The shock of it has blackened my soul
It has changed my role.
I want to run and hide.
Your face is the devil
Your words lies
Your eyes wicked
I want you back the way you were
The before and not the after
The dove not the snake
Why did you eat the fruit?
My Knight In Shining Armour Took The Day Off
MY KNIGHT IN SHINING ARMOUR TOOK THE DAY OFF
by
Melinda Everett
MY KNIGHT IN SHINING ARMOUR TOOK THE DAY OFF
So the dragon flew in and he burned me down
I sat captured waiting
But he didn't come.
(The sun rose
The sun set
The moon he never met)
Time flowed
The dragon burned me down.
No horse rode up,
No galliant stead,
No man with sword in hand,
Nothing grand.
Just anguish
Just torture
Just aloneness
Just pain.
He had taken the day off.
My heart broke....
The dragon continued burning me down.
I looked at the sky
(It rained
It snowed
It grayed it blued)
The dragon went right on burning me down
I fell over
I gasped
I died
My knight, he never came,
It's always the same
The dragon wins
My ashes dust
Still no knight to mourn
Or obtain justice for me
The Dragon laughed and danced.
My ashes rust.
(The sun rose
The sun set
The moon he never met)
The Dragon proud of my death...
No horse rode up
No galliant steed
No hero with sword in hand
Nothing grand
No tears of remorse
No shattered heart
No pining.
My knight never noticed my dust.
He forgot the trust.
The Dragon burned me down.
The Dragon getting bored, flew abroad
and began anew.
The princess was wooed
The Dragon met his match.
That knight with sword the dragon he did scratch.
The Dragon fell over
He gasped
He died.
The princess became a bride
And my ashes love never met
Not yet....
Leaving
Leaving
By
Melinda Everett
How can you say words that are untrue…..
How can you stand there fist in my face and demand your space….
How can you be so mean……..
How can you make this scene……..
All I wanted was to hide from you……
All this fighting all this drama….
It’s all from you……
I sat in my room feeling so small and scared……
Wishing I knew why…..
How unsafe do you expect me to be……
So you can scream your anger free……
Hang me on the wall……
And punch me like a bag…..
Every negative thing you put on me……
Now I’m the escape goat…..
But you can’t escape the consequences…
You can’t use someone to make yourself feel better….
So, I wipe the dust off….
I grabbed my things….
Out the door cause this won’t happen no more….
Now I’m free from you…..
I leave you how I found you….
Standing there wondering why your life isn’t what you wanted…..
The Intersection
The Intersection
by
Melinda Everett
by
Melinda Everett
Four corners
Noisy cars
Four choices
Visual distraction
Four points
Abstract blurs
Four signs
Concret dissection
Four flows
Voices murmur
Four lights
The intersection
Noisy cars
Four choices
Visual distraction
Four points
Abstract blurs
Four signs
Concret dissection
Four flows
Voices murmur
Four lights
The intersection
Displaced Anger
Displaced Anger
By
Melinda Everett
Displaced anger
Shouts of chaos
Blame mislead
The road to self impulsion
Being stuck.
Why choose the roadof dpression?
Why choose the path of blame?
Look at the choices
See the tranquility
Experience peace
Be a flower....
Bloom with beauty
Why not choose the path to fertility?
Why not choose the path to strength?
By
Melinda Everett
Displaced anger
Shouts of chaos
Blame mislead
The road to self impulsion
Being stuck.
Why choose the roadof dpression?
Why choose the path of blame?
Look at the choices
See the tranquility
Experience peace
Be a flower....
Bloom with beauty
Why not choose the path to fertility?
Why not choose the path to strength?
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