I look in your eyes
And they are deep blue
Your gaze has me wondering
Do you want me to?
I've given you my heart
Which you hold in your hand
You toss it and twist it
Where will it land?
Beginning to wonder
What can I do
To keep my heart safe
Should I save it from you?
You used to deserve it
Now you dont
It's broken and hurting
Just set it afloat.
Give it back to me,for me to regive
To someone who will love it
With all that they have
Someone who will hold it with strong,gentle hands.
Poem By Tammy C.
I wake up bent like a willow
after having surrendered to you
thoughts that once I didn't have
grew into thoughts I pushed away
but later became thoughts I spoke to you
and you devoured them
We were tangled so tightly
I didn't know where I ended and you began.
I was the drop of rain running down your neck
across your shoulder and down your back
and your skin responded with a quiver.
And now,
no breath remains
my love stripped bare
and everything I am rests within your hands.
The sky opened last night and drenched us
with everything we knew lay behind the wall of fear.
We discovered that our souls were made for each other.
We forgot in those moments everything we were afraid of
and where pain used to be
now there are butterflies.
Poem By Tammy C.
One by one
they step out of their mold
looking all perfect and cute
the hair
the clothes
the body that makes you count
the rest just sit
and watch them
parading past
in their new designer suits
like life sized robots
taking over the scene
who's who?
what's the difference?
I can't tell
they're just plastic people
living in their own plastic worlds
synthetic faces
synthetic bodies
synthetic love
and they all fall in line
one by one
here and there
they call us the posers
the popular wanabes
they laugh
because we're different
we laugh
because they're all the same.
Poem By Tammy C.
Who knows what
Might have happened
If you loved yourself enough,
No to need to keep proving
You still possess
This mysterious "it".
Your ego brush-stroked
Again and again
"You are handsome"
"You are passionate"
You are the tormented
Darkness that is scared
Of being broken.
So you keep yourself locked alone in fear.
Poem By Tammy C.
My heart is like a child most of the time,
tired and hungry with an orphan's cry.
Reason pleads to numb the past,
Yet time and time again I've mended breaks,
So a cuddled dream in my soul quakes,
"Oh to be free of complicated sorrow,
And not wish for a saviour for the morrow.
Oh to wake with a simple smile,
And gaze at the sky an endless while".
Poem By Tammy C.
Oh send me out sailing
Or to capture a thought
Rowboats are rowing,
In a circular spot
The spirit’s not quelled,
Or even distraught.
After noons and good evenings
of imagined farewells,
such is nary a thing that was never for naught.
Because life is a rondo, structured and sweet.
Tormenting passion comes ‘round, takes a seat.
Sun, moon and stars cause predictable scars
on heavenly bodies, full and complete.
A superior night is in sight,
the moon remembers its place.
The last sigh of evening fades off into space
and I no longer know you in the dark on repeat
while the stars wink and freckle and speak.
Poem By Tammy C.
She rides her bike down country lanes.
The sun shines down upon her pain,
Clouds go sailing in the sky,
Under the bridge, a train goes by,
She thinks 'bout ending it all there and then,
But something makes her think again,
Of all the summer days gone by,
And of these things that make her cry.
And she is falling, falling,
Tumbling through her days,
Her life at an end,
Wasting away,
Her powers of reason in desertion,
Cast adrift in some great ocean.
So with the sun behind her back,
She looks down, far along the tracks,
Her shadow falling from the sky,
And her empty hopes they fill her eyes,
Her lips garnished with the salty taste,
Of all the tears upon her face,
Her heart wishing he was there again,
His arms and smile to stop the pain.
And she is falling, falling,
Tumbling through her days,
Her life at an end,
Wasting away,
All powers of reason in desertion,
Adrift and tossed on some great ocean.
Poem By Tammy C.
I mourn you,
crushed beneath my foot
in a hundred fragments,
an undignified demise.
I did not want to be the one
responsible for your final minutes,
could not help but pause
and wish for a quick fix
to return you to your former glory.
The best I can do
is remember you fondly,
waving to me
like a wink in the breeze.
Poem By Tammy C.
September heart
But warming starts
If Woman's Life
Her love a knife
Warm earth is she
Beneath the tree
With tender starts
September hearts
Without the summer’s foolishness
And green pervades a blessedness
Man sometimes finds his half a whole
That carves his heart another role
And fecund ground lies waiting there
Sweet fruit in autumn waits to share
And timid touch does not drawback
Find kindred eyes when looking back
Now autumn calls
To earth he falls
And lives to die
And heals thereby
For seed and rain
By thorns and pain
When flames ablaze
Into her gaze
Poem By Tammy C.
Wondering why I’m here again,
If I will be here forever.
I’ve lifted myself back up a million times.
My life is a long story.
I should know. I wrote it.
So, here in the rain again.
I’m wondering where, how, or when It’ll change.
Poem By Tammy C.