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Therese Schmidt Poem
You have made a choice.
You have chosen hatred.
In our Heavenly Father,
you have chosen not to rejoice.
He is who spares the most awful dread.
You have chosen to hate me.
First it was the “N” word,
the Afro comment,
and my curly hair.
Now you hate me
for the religion
that I have chosen to be.
My faith gives me what is right and fair.
I pity you for all your hate.
But you made it clear my fate.
A Mormon to this date,
a Mormon forever.
Your rage and hate
prove my faith and
choice of religion right.
Your bigoted hatred
I have chosen to fight
by giving it light.
I want it
in everyone's sight.
Your rage and hatred is your only boast.
But with it you are engrossed.
Like you, your rage and hatred
are nothing but compost.
Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit
gives me what I need the most.
And for you, that is just
too bad so sad.
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Therese Schmidt Poem
Daddy Mike,
What were you like?
You were gone
when I was a very tiny tike.
Daddy Mike,
Was it because of me?
Was leaving me all you could see?
Surely, you knew how much pain there would be.
A little girl needs her daddy.
Daddy Mike,
From abuse and pain
I shed many a tear.
Without you here,
I always felt fear.
Daddy Mike,
Abusive babysitter, playmate,
bullies, and family.
Nowhere for me
to flee.
Daddy Mike,
Why were you
not here?
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What have you done to me?
A shadow of darkness
as affections twist.
Once we drank of heaven,
wide-eyed and innocent,
but your thirst soured.
A vengeful morass of agony -
tears follow blood,
follow pain,
love taken away,
in a torrent of hatred.
I HATE YOU.
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Slender beams of
accusation enter
this darkened place
as I kneel,
always lost,
always forlorn,
frozen here,
waiting.
Angelic forms wrought
in panes of glass loom as
dust dances in the air,
forming an image in my mind,
sparing not my
naked outstretched arms.
Realization dawning on my face.
I raise my head,
now kneeling before
this airy salvation.
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Around, all around,
the dark memories gather.
My dread grows
as the headsman's axe
falls against my neck.
It severs me,
and darkly my blood drips
to the cold,
uncaring tombstones.
In unholy terror
I flail madly
while the Reaper
laughs cruelly.
Now alone, my blood falls
upon uncaring eyes
This is your love.
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I look outside to see the glory of our Father,
Oh so Heavenly.
I look beyond and beneath
without much glee,
like a ring of gold in a swine's snout,
the ugly behind the beauty stands out.
In a mirror, I do see
an image of—well—me.
If I look deep, what will it be?
Will it be pretty?
Will it be ugly?
Is there goodwill to my fellow man
given lovingly?
Or nothing
but the bad, the evil sins,
and the downright ugly
with all the cruelty?
If it must be the latter,
oh Heavenly Father,
guide my feet
so battered to a place
where they will do much better.
Copyright © Therese Schmidt | Year Posted 2012
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