Words of Flight

Isn't it funny how the truth comes to light

Through pent up anger that is put on paper

Words expressed to spark flames of a fight

You will pack so much emotion in one phrase to be right

Misdirected by your misguided anger

And wrong conclusions you keep in your sight

Every difference and contradiction that they might

Replace what is goodness and true and sincere

Hiding behind the curtain that has in turn shed new light

Refusing to believe that the words would take flight

Despite closing the door thinking it would be better

While the darkness still blinds you to see what is right

Still holding fast to the lies you grasp day and night

Crushing your spirit one more time and more vaster

But still standing tall on the ledge of your height

That paper, it's burning my heart not from fright

But of the sadness in you now and I hope not forever

That will keep you standing alone in your plight

Until it is thrown away like this friendship overnight

04.07.14
©Kerri L. Stanley

Broken Songs

She tried to explain it to him
But he just couldn't understand
Or why she didn't want to
Just grab a hold of his hand
This feeling that she felt
Was like carefully walking along
And suddenly a trap door opens
Where she falls where she doesn't belong
And the sounds that now surround her
Echo pains of everything wrong
And the only sense it makes
Amounts to words in broken songs
Broken songs
Broken songs
Her world felt like just another
Broken song
With him it has always been
A broken song
He knew that if she would only
grab onto his hand
And allow herself to be pulled
She'd hear what he always knew
That the brokenness was beautiful


03.23.13

Corn Maze

Acres of darkness
Casting shadows in the night
Sharp turns and dead ends
We traverse left and right
Lost and separated in this maze
Looking for any way out
An infraction of this moment
That only leaves more doubt

10.20.08