Fire Starter

I am just a girl
No one special
Someone you don’t know
A piece of art
Hung like a canvas
Displayed, Times Square
These figurines from
Times forgotten
Disfigured girl whose
Face I don’t know
The vultures gather
Selling tickets
To a promise land
Venue unknown
For want this future
This girl betrayed
Seeking penance to
A life become
Ever I wander
This path taken
What I left behind
Promises kept
Searching tomorrow
A girl who wants
What she cannot find
This journey sought
A fire starter
Pretending too
Seeking only the truth
Lay me down in
Beds of soft feathers
Begin again
My darling this heart
Forsaken chain
A blistered soul
Solemn prayers take me
To where I fail
Please let me see you
Else I forsake

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Ashes from the fire

Never were you just
Someone I remember
Were I to be free
These chains of December
Your words will not cloak
The empty inside
Your picture, faded
Beneath a winters sigh
Pieces collected
What we lost to time
In wooden boxes
Ashes from the fire

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When I Visit You

When I visit you in my mind
Telling tales from our left behind
Visions into a peace unfound
Missing this girl I’ve never known

Memories shared with swollen heart
Finding some joy where there was none
Seeing every nuance of you
Cherished the life that we once knew

Eyes wide shut afraid to open
Should you decide to disappear
Precious gifts your words unspoken
Not quite a dream this heart I lend

In light of day we say goodbye
Holding me close I will not cry
Beautiful child tonight I’ll see
You once more in my sweetest dreams

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My feet are tired

I am done
Really I am
My feet are tired
All I have
Finished with this
Life untrue
What happens
To the child gone
To the girl new
Who prays for them
Sister I am crying
Will you stay
For awhile
Hold my tears
In your hands please
Like a dream
Incomplete
Mama tell me
It will be alright
Fire in the sky
Moonbeams rise
Like Gods from the sea
Bringing us hope
For us to believe in
These times
Withered heart find
Help me to move on
Little girl
Like a wish
In your hand
I understand

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