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Yesterday I Cried

Why, Momma, why?
Was I not deserving 
of you?
Was I not good?  
Was I too frail?
Did you send me away
Because your own life 
derailed?

Why, Momma, why
Do I still secretly wail?
Asking myself what did I do so 
wrong? How did I fail?

What you called rebelliousness
Was the only way I knew how 
to stay strong sometimes, I'd 
stay up all night looking after you
Got banged and bruised so that 
he wouldn't hurt you

No one else did that
Isn't it true?
Did you ever think about my wounds
That was the only way I knew to
protect you

Instead of helping me 
You banished me through lies,
Stripped me from my home,
My siblings, my life

Withheld your love
Because I tried to take my own life
But did you ever stop and think that
Perhaps something in me wasn't right?

Why, momma, why?
Does your absence whisper in me
A forever sorrowful lullaby and
Although, I miss you I love you more 
each day that goes by

I forgive you wholeheartedly
Despite that yesterday, I cried
I wouldn't hesitate to wipe
The tears from your eyes if they 
ever again were to meet with mine

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Dance For Anne Lise

Even though it hurts to smile,
I can pretend for a little while
That everything is alright

That when I look up at the 
Cinerescent sky and think 
about my life at least

I could say with certainty
that I've never been forsaken 
by the ONE MOST HIGH.....

That I could always count 
on the sun's luminescent rays to

Break through the darkest of clouds 
and soak up my tears as if with 
warm hands could heal 
that which is silent, private and still 
Inside of me.. 

A trinket to a fellow poet for
Inspiring in me the courage
to find the good in my life 
A special dance for the sweet Anne Lise



P.S.  Thank you for always having something encouraging and uplifting to say. God Bless. ~Maddie

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As Darkness Falls Upon Me

I lie awake while
Desperate for sleep
Time it keeps passing
Yet the hours bleak

I've come to the conclusion
That I must be doing something
Wrong or maybe it's just my 
Patience long gone

I don't know what others think
Before settling for bed
But sure wish I could abandon
these festering thoughts
As the pillow cradles my head

Mostly because of anger
Maybe because of rage
Mostly because I desperately seek
The key that opens this cage

How am I to love a man
Who has no sympathy for my grief
Instead of holding my hand
He shuns and grinds his teeth

What the f*** am I supposed to do
With this disdain for life I feel
Cut the wounds even deeper to see
If by all means it ends or heals

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Whispers Unheard

my friend I've met you in
the most peculiar way
I feel what you feel I cry
as though we speak.....

my friend your not alone
in this world  I too have felt
the loneliness the fear..

one day life won't seem so
cold you'll see the wondrous 
ways of human kind.......

crying so loud but a cry
that isn't heard in hearts
or oides of others...

shamefully I speak of remorse
and guilt as for me 
a life altering journey...

A blade that cuts me open
doesn't leave a trace but grasping 
for comfort it bleeds blood of sorrow
blood of death......

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I No Longer Fear the Rain

Today if it rains,
and the skies get dark
I won't allow my spirit 
succumb to it , instead I
will grab my favorite 
sweater go out and walk in it.

Rejoicing with every single 
droplet of rain that falls 
bringing me closer to the light; 
I know, I've found traces of it
In my beloved eyes.
For That treasure more precious than
Gold that many seek and may
Never find is already mine .

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Let Freedom Ring

I have something to say and 
for what lies ahead to God Almighty 
we must incessantly pray.
We look up to those we should 
shun..... 
We are taught about violence
We are taught to fear guns
Yet we fight with weapons
and deadly puns......

who are the responsible for 
the deterioration of the values
of our loved ones?

Are you and I free to decide
what is right or wrong or must
we hold our heads up high and
sing the song that wasn't meant 
to be sung.....

" Let freedom ring"
with it's dubious and misleading
intricacies with horror I observe 
the veiled atrocities of all those 
who continue to abuse power....

Are we truly living in the land of
the free. do we fear or are we blind
to what the elite condition us to believe

Are we Ok living in a so called
"Democracy" with the rules of those 
who are higher up? Is anyone yet fed up?

Do they now have ways of holding
our liberties hostage or our youth
in bondage... 

Dear Mr. President are we citizens
or residents are we slaves of the 
corrupt or should be thankful
and just shut the hell up....

Has our freedoms been sold or am 
I just being bold is it a sin to speak with
truth are the ones in power not the ones
hiding the proof and silencing 
the masses with drugs and trances.
 
I am here cause I still have a voice 
even if in everything else we have 
no choice....
I have witnessed the daily tragedies of 
of our once beloved nation with great
 indignation.

They say we live in democracy but we 
are not heard ,we are not the voice of the 
people; we are living in dictatorship and loving 
every minute of it because we are told what to 
think hear and speak and we care not know 
what we are fighting for " freedoms" but we are 
not FREE....

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I Will Never Leave You

I will never leave you is the promise
I've made and if I ever fail you
I will take that hurt to my grave.
What a pleasure its been to have known you
My passion for you is great.

I met you when I was at my lowest 
and my love for you grows fonder each day.
You give me comfort in distance that is great
In you is my wholeness;
In you, is my strength.

You are beauty unequaled before my eyes
The light in them that shines bright.
You are gentle, so loving, so kind
You give me peace I never knew could be mine
I call you " My heaven, my sky" because
Its beauty is vast and its the fairest comparison I can find
No one will ever love you the way I do.

I'm so grateful for you by my side
"I will never leave you" is a not an empty promise but
Something that will reveal itself in time.
I'd be foolish to ever leave you
I wanna love you for the rest of my life.

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Self Realization

Sometimes you gotta 
close your eyes to see 
the real truth hidden
inside you ....

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Perdoname Mama

Se que El amor ni el perdón 
Se compra con un simple regalo
Pero se puede expresar con el 
Corazón en la mano. 

Quizás estas palabras que quisiera
Decirte hoy no las puedas leer en una 
Tarjeta pero es lo que siento y créeme
Cuando te digo que para mi el no estar 
Contigo es una gran pena.

MAMA:
Me diste la vida; me vistes crecer con 
Devoción de madre, me apoyaste siempre
Para no verme caer y yo de niña necia no 
Siempre lo pude entender.

Ahora al pasar de los años que soy mamá
También mis ojos lo pudieron ver y la tristeza
Que algún día te cause vuelve a mi dejando un
Gran vacío por no tenerte cerca. 

Ayer lloraste por mi y hoy por lo que quizás sin 
Saber lo mucho que te hice sufrir es a mi quien
Me toca hoy llorar por ti. 

Nadie podrá llenar jamás el vacío que dejas en mi, 
Ni podrá enmendar esta culpa que ciento por no ser
Lo que esperabas de mi.

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Love Recanted

The distance growing 
between us is cold
I've already mourned 
you with out restrain
my heart an out pour 
of disillusions now
magnified through 
bitterness and rage.

I thought I'd love you
for the rest of my life 
now I can only pray this 
pain one day to subside.

Lines have been crossed 
destroying everything I
once believed to be sacred 
between us.

Let me go quietly don't 
torment me through
meaningless outcries. 

Just walk away don't say 
another hurtful thing
Don't lend yourself to be 
the executioner waiting to 
cut the very thin thread thats
kept me alive.

One last thing I wish to tell you
 before I say goodbye
when I said "I LOVE YOU" I truly 
meant it now those words left on 
my lips to die.