Outside in the playground With the popular girls Looking for acceptance That wasn’t what you found Only affectations Conformity and submission To the tyranny of fashion Empty-headed smilers and pleasers Pretenders and teasers You searched for honesty Found only lies No friendship or sisterhood No forever ties So you hooked up with the boys Learning […]
Tag: Pen
A freestyle poem
Scribbling on my Soul The scratching of the pen Won’t stop It echoes through my dreams And lifts my eyelids With the urgency Of birth Ideas invade Exploding crocuses That reach out For an inkling of light But Shadows shackle me To sleep Draw me back down Below the surface Until the poem Remains a […]