Tell It Like It Is

When you’re down on your luck, all one needs is 
love and a hug.
Quote - Poet’s own


I'll tell it like it is, the mood that's blue
People tell me I'm looking well, not true
Those words come alike a stab on my heart
When my world's completely falling apart.

I put on a smile that’s entirely fake
To disguise my tears for fears and heartbreak
Who wants to listen to my tales so blue
Tales that I prefer that folk never knew.

I aim to be kindly though there are times 
I’ll speak with words that are most unrefined 
Then beat myself with an imagined stick
And pray for forgiveness of my remiss.

I feel alike that fantastical lass
Abled to have stepped through a looking glass
That everything in my life is reversed
Gone from angelic to devil on earth.

I’m trying my best to put myself right
But it is surely one heck of a fight
One day I hope to tell it like it is
That all is wonderful and life is bliss.
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30th October 2022

Poem written too late to enter the contest sponsored by Mystic Rose Rose
“Tell It Like It Is”

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Joe Maverick

Date: 12/1/2022 2:43:00 PM

Telling write from you tonight, ringing thoughts Bout paradime, of wishes and wanting Wailing of your fortune; and un-design' Wilful fate capricious blue, life epoch daunting Till much better arrives, enhancing the times.' Its the best I can do right now Belle.'

Beryl Edmonds
Date: 12/1/2022 4:27:00 PM

Thank you Joe, have been through so much over the past year with my husband being really ill from sepsis and all that incurs. Now I’m in recovery from COVID pneumonia. I will get to a good place soon hopefully, thanks you for the kind words… Belle

Gershon Wolf

Date: 11/12/2022 8:02:00 PM

This is a real winner in my opinion. That 'put on a happy face' can really be a struggle, (although it's always worth it in the end, methinks). Cheers, gw

Beryl Edmonds
Date: 11/13/2022 1:51:00 AM

It is worth wearing a smile even when you’re feeling blue, it’s magic what a smile can do. Thank you Gershon… Belle

Eve Roper

Date: 11/1/2022 7:07:00 PM

Life is so hard sometimes. You sound like the things I do when I am upset at my self. Well said. Many blessings dear

Beryl Edmonds
Date: 11/2/2022 12:38:00 AM

Thank you Eve, it’s what’s been going on in my life, having my husband so ill and though things are a lot better there’s many setbacks, the anxiety, fear and dread is the hardest part, the caring is no trouble at all… Belle