Take Me Back

Come back and burst me out
From this town and it’s constant drag
Take me back
Lead me back to the place we both knew
The place we both treasured and swore
Forever we’d stick it.

They came,they left
They never looked back and we said,
We said,we’d never get out
But we left it
We got out and took leave
From the hills and forest breeze
And settled in the city
Where it’s hot but cold
Where time is plenty but little
I wanna get out.

Come back and take me back
To the little town with one market
I’m a small town girl you know
The city is not my home.
My heart yearn,for the glorious days,
When life was that small town.

I wanna go back,
But not alone,with you
Let’s go back
To the trees,the green,the dew
Let’s return and never look aside.

Ciss2nd July07

Maybe Tomorrow

All I want now, is a little sleep.
Maybe tomorrow will be a longer day-
Maybe tomorrow, I will finish my stories.
Maybe tomorrow, I will dry my tears.
Maybe tomorrow, my life won't be dictated.
Maybe tomorrow I will know what to do.

Perhaps I'll confess my hurt,
Perhaps I'll forget the injustices,
Perhaps I'll have time to watch my cat sleep.

Maybe tomorrow I will love safely.
Maybe tomorrow I will do my stretches,
Maybe tomorow I will clip my toe nails,
To strut through life's paths without care.
And not fear being misunderstood
6th Dec 2005










{I recently heard a rock song with similar lyrics and was wondering what came first,,my poem or the song?Or is some rocker out there having similar thought?}

We are no Longer Friends

I can’t sleep tonight
She says.
Because he smiled,and said
Will see you tomorrow then
Before he waved and disappeared
Into the crowd of night runners
And she looked at his back
Wishing,
Praying that she sees another day
And to see him,
And to wear that new dress
To show him she can be feminine
To bend the line of buddyism.

I can’t sleep tonight,
She says
Because when he smiled
It was a nervous crack
A smile o a beautiful woman.

Tonight she thinks,
That he knows,
Their friendship is over
She won’t sleep tonight.

When She Smiles

when she dozed off in the middle of my narration
I was annoyed and incensed, how could she?
When she walked past me with her rich friends
The friendship line thinned, I wondered why
Why did I keep on.

She likes to boss me around and talk ill
When I turn my back;she even told
Them I was illegitimate,and the whisper went on
Until I shyly asked her-how comes
You look now’t like your siblings
Oh yee first born?

My kindness she trumpled on like a front door
Rag,and took for granted my constant help
Yet I forgave her.Yet I still call her buddy
Because when my buddy smiles,
It’s sunrise allover.
It’s a dozen heads of sunflower.

Beyond Reach

I’m 9.
Angry and bitter.
At the world, at people.
I’m silent
I’m seething. I could explode.

At 13 I gain surety.
I’m confident and strong
I know what I want
I’m not scared, I fight.

Then I turn 15.
Fear and confusion settle in
My hands are cut off.

At 16 I’m running,
I’m in love,
I’m a rebel.
I’m 18;scared,furious
Determined.
How long can I live?
And I have a crush on an older man.

At 19 I’m proud and sure
I treasure friendships and ties
20settles in, with anger,
With bitterness,
I’m frustrated and desperate.

At 21 I’m hopeful
Enthusiastic
And I develop warped humor
Because I try
As hard as I can, but I get 2nd rate
I reach 22.
I cry, I laugh, I’m lost in thoughts.

Then I realize,
My passion is not a fleeting dream.

June 07
{alternative titles: When You Only Got a 100 Years to Live.,Rediscovering {my}Youth,Youth}