temperature rising
fire storm raging inside
her soul skin is scalded
blisters sizzle her mind
parsimony lost in translation
thoughts on autopilot and overdrive
emotions opposing each other
and her restless Self
seek and she will find
pot of gold
charcoal incinerator
catatonic cauldron
roasted synapses
or heavenly peace
a rainbow melts into oblivion
the void teases resolve
agony waits in patience
for resilience to scorch
when the past lingers on
with future uncertain
all she has is the present moment
short lived and eternally feverish
a pyretic meltdown knows no limits
and yet she is a survivor
and not a victim
Categories:
firefight, abuse,
Form: Free verse
Gaza's hostages
When IDF tried to free six of Hamas hostages
holed up in a tunnel, the six, two women and
four men were found dead
three questions arise.
When were the hostages shot?
During the firefight?
Or were they sacrifices?
we know that the vile regime
the Israel regime is capable of anything foul
Hamas could have murdered
the hostages to stop the IDF from searching
for more hostages
Categories:
firefight, anger, angst, anti bullying,
Form: Free verse
Struggling parents skipping meals so their children
can eat,
good Samaritans pulling someone from a burning
vehicle by a highway or street.
Police, military, some fallen in a firefight saving
other's lives,
firefighters going into an inferno rescuing people
out of a high rise,
that's a hero.
A work-weary single parent rewarded with their
small children's love,
praying for a raise gazing out the window
far above.
Blood donors answering the call to step up
during a critical need,
environmentalists' earth honoring creed,
that's a hero.
Two elderly men in 2023 quietly standing
up for unborn babies in front of a Baltimore
Planned Parenthood beaten up by a hater,
with their broken bones and bruises came
back to the abortion clinic four days later.
A lone swimmer saves two drowning people,
so brave,
barely makes it back to shore, but silently
watches EMTs give care to those he saved.
People standing tall for what is right,
can sleep well under God in the night.
Heroes don't hesitate-
their adrenaline surges, then they go,
that's a hero. ~
Categories:
firefight, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Rhyme
I cried out to no reply
people need to realise
they only cared after
"always" is a lie
now their care is projected
it's clear to see, detected,
but when needed rejected,
shown now and respected
what good is a doctor when you die,
or a lifeguard ignoring the cry,
a firefighter who doesn't firefight,
as good as friends were to I
friends in hindsight
once ignorant to my plight
great friends in my life
didn't help me fight
people I do not need
wouldn't listen let alone bleed
only out for selfish greed
blaming change solely on me
Categories:
firefight, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Fear
A dark night and all seems well
When out of nowhere, the bright burst
This stirs so much to tell
People running to the berm
Rifles firing, mortars thumping and people screaming
I go my area and look into the night
There it is a big firefight
Red tracers, green ones too, crossing and hitting the berm
Like a fireworks display
The night seems like it will never end
In area's is louder and more
I wonder if people know the pain of war
As the sun begins to rise, you look out in the space
There are no bodies, nothing not even a trace that it all happened
Your mind starts to wonder if it even happened or was it a dream
You don't know until the end
When you hear who got hurt, or who is dead
Yes this is war, this is the price people pay to keep a nation free
Yet those at home don't understand
Children running around, people talking
When our national anthem is played
They don't know the price of freedom
Like those men and woman who are in graves.
Categories:
firefight, anger, anxiety, care, confusion,
Form: Lyric
I'm a suspect, a suspect in this mystery
but this case is incomplete
This isn't how it's supposed to be
this: a foreign word but I need to know, need to know this
what is this
Is the stranger me now
the stranger in this picture, in this frame
this falling frame that I'm deeming incomplete
I am this incomplete masterpiece
that everyone, everyone thinks they can control
they can manipulate like a chess piece or movable stone
but I'm neither one, I'm myself
Chasing a light in this firefight
in a moment that's passed, it passed...
I'm a suspect, I'm a suspect
a suspect in this mystery, do you not know me breathlessly I scream
but this case is incomplete, am I invisible
This isn't how it's supposed to be, everything's wrong
this, this, this; a problem carved into brick
A foreign word but I need to know, I need to know
why have I turned cold as ice
what is this
Is the stranger me, the stranger in this picture
in this still frame, am I insane
in this still frame that's falling
falling away in this, in this, in this
Categories:
firefight, nonsense,
Form: Free verse
When every woman that you meet,
every meal that you eat,
every forbidden sweet treat,
still reminds you of...her.
When moonlight at midnight,
is an oversight,
your feelings airtight,
in your body a firefight,
your thoughts still drift to...her.
When the air that you breathe,
has your body deceived,
and you wander if its possible,
that she needs her's relieved,
but the impossibility of it all,
makes your brain concede,
that loving her still hurts,
and, its a real mind blower.
You're still wrapped up.
You haven't moved on.
You haven't moved up.
The only thing left to do,
is move over.
Categories:
firefight, love hurts,
Form: Dramatic Verse
War
Enlist list
Signed sheets
Quick and easy
It's all so cheesy
Come home soon, please
Chinook ride overseas
She sends a letter
I've felt better
Worthless
Mortars
Night raids
Humanitarian aid
A spade's a spade
All this just to get paid
Improvised Explosive Device
Repeating "love will suffice"
Injured soldier
Never colder
Scared
Firefight
White flags
Lines of sight
Bodies to drag
A fire to constantly ignite
Longest war in history
Victory is a mystery
Endless gunfire
Situation dire
Desperate
War
Eternal
In our blood
Till our blood spills
And our casualty joins the statistic
Categories:
firefight, war
Form: Free verse
For the torn,
for the meek.
Toward the storm,
toward the beast.
For the scorned,
for the weak.
Wounded warriors,
for the free.
In the dirt,
make my bed.
Firefight,
overhead.
Live on hope,
consume hate.
Rusted spoon,
rusted plate.
On this stage,
in my role.
Home one day,
never whole.
For this goal,
in the name.
Different soul,
though the same.
Take my life,
use it well.
Build your heaven,
on my hell.
Don't you cry,
I'll always be.
Wounded warrior,
for the free.
Categories:
firefight, life, loss, peace, thank
Form: Free verse