cat hisses at dog
dog retaliates growls at
the fending purring
07/14/25
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.2025©
If I could rewrite the sentences of my past. The
Adversities, Challenges, Exhaustion. My Past is not Me
I often questioned myself, Why these mental games?
Emotional, Confusion, Manipulation from familiar.
People aI thought to be trusted bMy Past is not Me
She wasn't fed from a golden spoon yet Persistence,
Resilience are now her friends
Strategic wars hovered over her mind let's dive in.
Self awareness, Denial? Comparisons little did she know deep within it was someone known with games of
Power for control.
She gave the keys to her heart only for her past to
used against her to make to feel like a puppet on
strings. My Past is not Me
Is she's in the driver's seat? She no longer retaliates
She's detached from calculated manipulation.
Bread crumbs she doesn't chase, She no longer falls
for the bait. Will familiar faces ever let her get to the
Finish line?
Constantly spinning webs on her next move only to be reminded of her past for sport. My Psst is not Me
A herd of birds and little bees,
whip through the tall oak trees
flowers grow in a different hue
a beautiful earthly view.
Gracious was the painter he,
created beauty for all to see
songs of nature sing the stream
it babbles with the rocks between.
The land whispers of a birth,
something old and new from this earth
the sun reflects and retracts
Mother nature is taking back.
We must give as we take,
to often fix what we break
but too soon it will be too late
and the world itself will retaliate.
What it gives will all be gone
The last of our loving home
the world is tired when people quit
deciding to take care of it.
Tiny hearts beating fast;
hoping for a love that lasts;
Cryptic calls;
passions fall;
Love awaits, hate displaced;
Joy retaliates;
Variance tolerance;
Voicing love;
Lovers choice;
Beautiful ernst;
3/24/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021
At the edge of a roaring ravine humanity shivers this year
Wondering how it has reached here with wounded civilizations
Forgetting age old blunders incurred upon the existence of humans
Thriving jealousy, waging wars
Building armory to destroy their own
Caressing destruction by diplomacy
Spilling oil over nature gasping for life
Now Earth retaliates to cleanse itself
Bubbling volcanoes, newborn tornadoes
Novel pandemics, extinction of genes
Humanity struggles to resurface
Through abandoned shades of hope
That retains itself over centuries
Is this the beginning of an apocalypse till the end?
Hope wishes a few might survive to preserve cultures and live on
But hope believes humans will change to create a new world with nobility
This might be the awaited beginning
Do humans at last, understand?
May 23, 2020
Keep loyalty for only yourself
forget what they say
be true to you not someone else
and do it your way
Be aware you’re valuable
it’s why they value you
when weakened and vulnerable
see if they value you
Don’t assume if you give you get
when you give they soon forget
you don’t get served what you deserve
but you can serve with held nerve
At the end of the day only you have your back
they say they do but it’s words an act
a statement of false they'll soon take back
when comes the day they need to act
I’ve witnessed people be traitors
watched bitter friendships turn to hatred
I’ve seen true colours and said laters
and experienced life frustrated
One man respects
another man rejects
one man appreciates
another retaliates
I’ve learnt to be loyal to only myself
trust wears til it's where in someone else
I’ve learnt to walk alone and free
with loyalty and trust for only me
Evil and God
Good and Bad
Since her first dawn.
She has been hearing it;
Of the both sides of the coin,
Of the both sides of human nature.
If a truth for the coin,
A truth for her.
What if she was not subdued
to be good?
What if she was not taught
to worship God?
Was it necessary?
She wonders as she embraces
the cold hard mattress,
in a cold room bolted from outside.
Animal are not taught,
are not cultured.
Yet they know how to be calm,
how to be angry.
Feed and produce.
They know it all.
Love for love
Fight for fight.
Being human,
Why does she lie here,
Life imprisonment.
Is she dangerous?
Those black and white coats,
bound to zero or one,
would not understand
Provocation.
If the tigress is provoked,
She retaliates.
Still, she knows when to stop.
She retaliated.
She stopped.
It's over.
None can harm her
if she wants.
She learnt.
And been judged - a dangerous criminal!
Silent times retaliates
your times are waste
Am master
Bubble your time
cos your time will always pass
When they flip the glass
your time is over
My time timeless
regardless of your findings.
Do you have what it takes?
Fast forward
hit the breaks
Life retaliates-
And I can’t hear you
I’ve raised the stakes.
You’re losing,
abusing the guidelines
Trying to read the fine lines-
That are already erased.
My reality is faced-
With demons trying to bring me down
I can feel myself drown
In and out of breath
Your words they hit me
And clog my throat-
It’s such a pity
I’m the scapegoat
They stood poised to rise like sons
A collective of kindred spirits to wars
From this squadron pose they chose
They rose to face their foes
Arise like thorns from bulbs arose
Thrust their blades into their souls
Of war cries and the songs of idols
Their fears worn like sculls on spears
Prayers like a kite to the heavens
Courage like feathers to the winds
Crows poke at their startled eyes
Disappear with their gaze like a haze
Fake alliances and poor strategies froze
In this battle defeat is reward for the skeletons
To dowse forever their ignited fuse
Refuse their mummies escape from the killing fields
To amaze the masses arrested in the maze
Kaizer shooting instructions like fireballs
The enemy retaliates by clipping our feathers
The Glamour boys simply regroup their wings
RAPE
You don’t know what is equality?
All you do only is showing brutality;
Never have you shame when you rape,
Or when you transform into sex tape;
You follow girl and molest,
No one needs you to give her body attest;
Your deeds are such great,
That even cops can’t change your fate;
Breeds of your in the society is harmful,
Respect the girl although she is/isn’t beautiful;
Imagine the day if God retaliates,
Improve the situation before it defoliates;
Any day you may also have to pay the price,
Do good, do right it’s the only advice;
Someone here is your mother, your sister,
You won’t like the crime happened with your daughter;
You say you love the most your wife,
Don’t fall to get a punisher’s life;
Carve your nature towards empathy,
Whom you raped can you give her sympathy;
Bury the demon existing and controlling you,
Get the degree of ethics one has to pursue.
Somewhere under the clouds I found love,
shakin’ it up-
I made a steam puff,
makin’ it up-
I was a dream of…
Holdin’ the sun,
I was a steak for lunch,
drummin’ it up,
I made the lead for us,
hey yeah!
I wanna meet your trust,
hey yeah
lets get along-
on and off the bus,
lets earn their trust,
and make amends with what we don’t love,
and conquer a nut,
a bolt or even the fuss.
Its time to cuss-
break at the wake,
swim in the lake!
React to the fake's!
Focus on the birthday cake,
find out if it decorate's?
Or if it retaliates...
Literally, like a really long day.
Not a really long life,
that is too far for me to go away!
Jumpin' G hootz I am gay!
I love even those ways!
I come up with plays,
and rewrite them over and over again!
Pray for a stormy day,
so I can get on with my Bane.
Forgive me, I thought somebody cared,
I thought it was you
Or I would surely never dared
Reveal myself through
Who made you guardian of my days,
Master of each step?
The spirit will retaliates,
Becoming suppressed.
I thought it was you,
Wearing an angelical smile
And with sparkling eyes
Bewitching me with its magic.
As time slowly passed.
The truth was clearly revealed
When I saw the fake lover
Hiding behind the mask.
I thought it was you,
The one permanently fixed
In my heart and mind
And also in my dreams.
Disappointed now I am
But with faith and hope
I will eventually survive
And see a brighter light.
One sunny day
While the butterflies dance
And the birds happily sing,
I shall find you my angel,
The woman of my dream
Romeo Della Valle
Sunlight Cascading Into Flamboyant Shades,
Lives emerge and unite in Cacophony.
An Eerie silence, a glare and a Ripped feeling,
Is this what I Embody and Signify to you??
The Jealousy to Possess the Moments with you,
A Vehement resentment on being amalgamated in Crowd.
How do you Create Things So Negative Yet So Lovely,
That I feel ashamed and snivel at to Share.
Never In Life, Have I been so Alienated,
A feeling to Reserve all My Thoughts for You.
A Thousand Letters, A hug and a Bosom Full of Emotions,
Unshared yet Uncluttered.
That's How Distances and Time Whisper,
Never let these Moments of Boundless Love Trail Away,
A Trail that Sketches my Memory.
Without that Known Silhouette, Silences Ache up,
Winks turn into cold Stares, Flaring upon a Soul's being.
A Sudden Shriveled Drop retaliates,
Hide the Sorrow, Hide The Moment..
A stare at the Perfect Mirror Rim,
Into Those Eyes as I Realize,
“I WILL NEVER BE THE SAME AGAIN"!!!
Pouncing wind of the North, what's the unexplainable folly
for enacting a surly deed?
Stripping my stately pines
of their verdant leaves,
give back their esteem!
Impetuous is your haste,
immutable and imperative,
impairing these sentinels
that guard the feeble ones,
but you immolate and leave!
Pouncing wind of the North, what's your miscreant animosity?
Diminish your implacable rage and wrath;
this grove which abundantly grew,
shouldn't grieve and not feel more dew;
compassionate them and depart!
Disclose your bitterness
before Nature retaliates your fury,
deduce your foolishness and prevent damage;
submit to its wishes and change course,
tomorrow underneath their shade they'll ravish!
Copyright 2009 by Andrew crisci
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