Innocence

Silence

Concern

Empathetic,

Blue eyes

Glisten

Secretly You, listen

To everything

The world is your teacher

Movements graceful

Powerful

Unsure

But confident

Footsteps

Your eyes bound with light

Innocence

A smile flows from your face

Melts every doubt

Every hurt

Every sharp, hidden knife

That cuts…

The first to love

To trust

To give everything.

Truly Beautiful

A presence of free hearts beating

In unison

The world, broken?

With a heart like yours opening doors to peace in the swords?

With love like yours resonating through the halls of much too large spaces for far too few faces?

As you run and wrap your frail arms around my neck,

your feet lift ever so slightly

slowly

until only your toes remain

up

up

into the watercolor sky you fly

but as my grasp faces

I decide.

I’ll never let go

Why would I?

So you can grow?

To learn that children

Murder

 each day?

That rape is not held at bay

--not even close.

That parents fail

Abuse their spouses

Blame their daughters

And destroy what you so easily hold in your chest?

To find out

the world you love so dearly

throws its brightest stars to the wolves

its most beautiful minds to despair?

Where the mothers that care

Are forced to share

Their

Last chance at life worth living

Their last only hope they’re giving.

Where the beauty In your eyes will leave you

“maturity” consume you

Boys will break you

Trust will fail you

And when you scream in the night

Your pain will break every heart

Every heart

Every heart.

No

Remain in my arms

Where love is pure

unaltered

where your joy strikes down despair

and revives life

taunts strife

and maybe I have to let go

but please, please, please

don’t grow.

For You

So I decided to write some poetry too. So i can just cover all the bases.

I ran

Furiously

Fear swarmed about

I would not let it in

Urgency was my drive

I arrive

Enter slowly

Calm

There you are

How I’ve never seen you

My strong, impulsive, friend.

My humor without end.

Sitting erect

Plain

Years of agony hanging in those wonderful eyes.

The lip

Quivering slowly,

Then completely.

“NOOOOOOOOOOOO”

An eruption of pain

I can barely move.

As you implode in emotions streaming down your face

Crevices in your skin they trace

Your body quakes

Utter despair

I am at your side

I hold your thrashing body

Your heaving chest

Tears of my own quiver for escape

But I will not concede

In my head,

I fall to my knees in defeat

The joy here is gone

How is it possible to feel such horacity?

Such anguish?

No

For you, I am strong

For you, I know life is beautiful

For you, my faith unbreakable

Don’t you see?

Love is reborn,

It never ends,

But finds new form.

Leaving for more tissues

I shut the door behind me

I walk, coolly

to the hall’s end.

I collapse

Tears of agony hanging in my softened eyes.

My lip

Quivering slowly,

Then completely.

“Ahhhhh, eh, eh, uh-uh”

An eruption of pain

I can barely move.

As I implode in emotions streaming down my face

Crevices in my skin they trace

My body quakes

Utter despair

I return with the tissues

You’ll be alright