After the noise had settled
I kept reaching
for conversations
that had already ended
Not because I had something new to say
Because your absence
still answered me
There are rooms
I walk through differently now
Corners that remember you
better than I do
And every version of the future
I try to build
Finds its way back
To your name
I used to think
love was being understood
Now I think
It is carrying someone with you
after they have gone
Not as a wound
As a direction
If there is a distance between us
I would cross it
If there is a silence
I would sit inside it
If there is a door
I would wait beside it
for as long as it takes
Not because I am lost
Because I know where home is
And for all the things
I should have said
The one that remains is simple
I am still here
And if you turned around
You would find me
coming toward you
A quiet hour calms and soothes my soul.
I hid my heart in stillness
Because it runs to you easily.
I denied almost every glance
Because my courage was never enough.
What should I do?
Because I never learned to love you out loud!
Every time I look back before leaving a beach,
Touching the water goodbye, promising soon another meet,
I’m forced to think—does the sand get offended?
I mean, I could be just another person ignoring it,
But I don’t want to be.
So I let my hands sift through it as well.
I mean, surely it too deserves to be quelled.
No less of a journey did it undergo,
So why do we merely ask it for shells?
Maybe it has other stories buried deep within it.
Maybe it also wants us to see.
But maybe, since we never really cared,
Used by others, it has learned to be.
So as I explore its traits,
And I continue to relate,
No longer separate—I am sand, and sand is me.
Settling, scattering, yet never really gone.
And now, every time I am by the sea,
I ask everyone running towards the waves excitedly:
“What about the sand?”
And beneath the ask, an echo waits—
“What about me?”
I,
Am Emily
A Knitter,
A Boxer
A Care Giver
I,
Am Emily
A Dreamer
Creative
Courageous
And A Fighter
I,
Am Emily
And I am always evolving and changing
For the Better
I would like to tell you of the life I have had sometimes happy sometimes sad
I have experienced losses and I have experienced Gain
I have hurt the ones I love and they have
Caused me pain
I have shed unhappy tears also tears of joy
I have seen and experienced miracles
At the birth of my baby boy
I have fought for things that were worth
Fighting for
I have also been arrested when I broke the
Law.
I have shown forgiveness for that I have
No regret
I can also hold a grudge about things I can
Never forget
I have given my love freely I gave it without a worry
I was hurt by betrayal so I will not love again in a hurry
I have I lowered my shield and opened up for all of you see
I have no regret for opening up and showing the real me.
What are goofy things
Being awkward,
telling dumb jokes and stories,
or wearing crazy clothes
are all great ways to be goofy.
Why are my stories so bad
I never thought them goofy
The lady say's I'm a jerk.
I never thought I was being useless
She said I had a silly grin.
I thought I was smiling.
I admit to loving you
You are ashamed of me
aren't you?
A goofy smile is sweet
unless you don't wanna be sweet.
Why am I sweet anyway
or are you just mean and sour
and repel great looking men
Huh? Come on tell me.
Please tell me why you know
so much?
Tell me why you're so special.
I'm proud and debineer
cool and sophisticated
I got that rizz about me
I got that rizz about me
i really;really do
an alarming rhizz go tell your friends
tell them I'm that great and entertaining
Goofy, nah I'm Rizomatic
This word was created today
the word was brand new.
I try not to make a habit
of accosting every squirrel or rabbit,
and, to tell you the truth, anyway,
they really don't have much to say.
Look at Me!, Look...At...ME!
I'm your "Golden Vision!"
Walking the "Red Carpet,"
Like "Stars" on Television!
I Love to tease the Guys,
The "Girls" too, I would say.
I just Flash my Big...Blue...Eyes
And, "ALL" come out to Play!
I have long, Golden Hair,
A Perfect little Smile.
My Teeth are Pearly White,
You can see 'em for a Mile!
Popping...Perfect...Perky...Breasts!
Sporting Long and Lanky Thighs!
My Buns are both in Sync,
Cuz, my "Tushy's" Synchronized!
I just Love my Smartphone,
There's no Rhyme or Reason!
One "QuikTrip" to "Walmart,"
"Yahoo!" It's Selfie-Season!
Sorry! God made "You"...Ugly,
I don't Pay for "His" Mistakes!
Some may say "I'm"...Plastic,
But, "Plastic's" what it Takes!
If "You" Play your Cards...Just Right,
Then, all This!, Is just for You!
Just bring that Credit Card...
Any Old Card will Do!
I was never eager to accommodate others or to please
I am also not one to stand around, shooting the breeze
I do not mind sleeping with puppy dogs and fleas
But I have no use for humans, for they bully and tease.
i cannot hide that i still think of you
a short romance you felt, but did not understand
you tell everyone what you never told me
ignoring what you did
hearing what you said
in those desperate attempts to wrap it all up into words
you trapped us
writing it off as confusion
forcing a conclusion
but I know it was there
I know it may sound funny
It's just how I feel
Somethings I have to do in life is just about me
I have found that every path taken
Some to endless points
Lead me to a road where I have to do what's meant for me
I may never really acquire true peace
However that's just a state of mind
If I do what I have to do for me
I know I will find
A state of bliss
Green pastures do await
I know I will one find tranquility
It's just in every little step towards it
I just have to take
I said ,"I love you ,"
He asked ," How so?"
I said," I troubleshoot and brainstorm there,
Where you are truly guiding me to lead a way
To clean the silence
Not to silence the clean."
He said, "I live there
pay my rent
Monthly utilities too!
Sometimes audible
Sometimes dusable."
I asked, "There?
You mean... There?
Do they have golden hair
Or heir, there?"
He shrugged,
"Just in June, sing soon!"
September 2024
About me
I am somebody special
That was made
By my father
With his holy hands
A long time ago
And also along
Time ago
My father had
Placed me to live
Here on earth
I love living on earth
My beautiful life
Every single day
I care about
The way my friends
Love me
Also my friends
Are my family
I trust my friends
And I know that
There will be always
Around for me
Even when I am sick
I just don’t like
Being sick
I try to take good care
Of my health
Every single day
Also, was my father
That gave me the
Gift of health
I also never had
Ruin my health
I don’t smoke
At all friends
So I have healthy lungs
Also friends I never drunk
Any alcohol
Because that would destroy
My liver
Friends I also have
Healthy liver
I made a promise to me
That I will stay sober
Forever
Also friends I was born
A Christian
And I will also die
As a Christian
I am glad that
My friends have some
Respect for me
They respect my race
And religion
I am very happy about that
About me
I am somebody special
That was made
By my father
With his holy hands
A long time ago
And also along
Time ago
My father had
Placed me to live
Here on earth
I love living on earth
My beautiful life
Every single day
I care about
The way my friends
Love me
Also my friends
Are my family
I trust my friends
And I know that
There will be always
Around for me
Even when I am sick
I just don’t like
Being sick
I try to take good care
Of my health
Every single day
Also, was my father
That gave me the
Gift of health
I also never had
Ruin my health
I don’t smoke
At all friends
So I have healthy lungs
Also friends I never drunk
Any alcohol
Because that would destroy
My liver
Friends I also have
Healthy liver
I made a promise to me
That I will stay sober
Forever
Also friends I was born
A Christian
And I will also die
As a Christian
I am glad that
My friends have some
Respect for me
They respect my race
And religion
I am very happy about that
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