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Melisa Karpinske Poem
So many critics in our world
technology has made it more so
Your dress makes you look a tramp, m'dear
Sharp opinions wherever we go
You are to chubby to be a model
and so the cycle starts
Young lady born to anorexia
words to shape her mind and heart
A little boy walks with a noticable limp
at recess kids laugh and point fingers
he stands all alone, pain in his bones
fighting bone cancer that lingers
Don't open your mouth or type those words
think first about how you would feel
if those same words were pointed in your direction
use kind words to help people heal
Copyright © Melisa Karpinske | Year Posted 2016
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Melisa Karpinske Poem
Time to rise and shine
Get dressed for this days grind
Look yourself in that mirror
And repeat after me
I am ready for today
No one can take my happiness away
Unless I let them
I will smile toward strangers
I will make it through whatever
Struggles come my way today
I am strong
I am smart
I am beautiful
Now look in the mirror
deeper into your eyes, where soul lies
Repeat it one more time, with meaning
Copyright © Melisa Karpinske | Year Posted 2017
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Melisa Karpinske Poem
As dust doth settle upon your casket
I do not weep, mine eyes remain dry
as the warmest summer days on land
And though those around me stare
I know in confusion
For they have not seen inside you
or myself, as we do
Thy ears perk at hissing, while eyes unfocused in panic
For a split second on your resting box
From your grave, I keep waiting for your fist
waiting for venomous words to spew forth from your lips
Lips I had abandoned, for no matter the love I gave
through the good, through the bad
Bad turned a tad too much as my bones broke,
muscles ripped bared screams from fattened lips
Today, standing with dry eyes I tell myself again
The past was just pretend
T'was just a story I had read but months ago
A tale, A nightmare of pretense
Copyright © Melisa Karpinske | Year Posted 2017
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Melisa Karpinske Poem
Momma went crazy again
drinking up a storm
She just wouldn't stop
through night til early morn
She punched her new boyfriend, Tyler
Gave him a shiner that closed his eye
Tyler called my dad, he came,
to take me away for the night
Tyler looked at my dad
asking how did he do it
Dad touched me on the head
Said I was worth all the ****
Momma broke everything
but worse she has broken me
Tyler is a nice stepdad
I like him and he likes me
Don't know where I'm going
tomorrow seems so bleak
but for now I'm with my dad
I won't worry and will not weep
So today I am with dad
While momma sobers up
inside her broken mess
while her and Tyler broke up
Copyright © Melisa Karpinske | Year Posted 2017
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Melisa Karpinske Poem
Her face held age
gasped scar piled upon scar
from a man's thunderous rage
still stings, though gone you are
Her heart in chest beats
though it halted once within
those fists & words come to greet
from his parents & his own sins
She held her head high with pride
in a world that sometimes seems artic cold
promised never to let teardrops fall in sighs
for a nefarious man that causes agony so bold
Copyright © Melisa Karpinske | Year Posted 2017
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Melisa Karpinske Poem
When the police finally caught us
At a 'friends' in Kentucky
I didn't care if we went to jail
In there, I would be safe and lucky
The cops asked me if I was alright
I had welts and bruises from your bites
My nose had just been broken
I had just set it back right, while crying
Tears of relief fell, seeing flashing lights
My ribs were still healing
From the three weeks before
Punches reigned, and I fell
Fetal position on the floor
You'd laughed your evil laugh
Urinated on me
as you screamed, "rotten w****!"
I never felt safer in my life
As when the police put me
in the backseat of the cop car
I laughed in scared confusion, was I free?
Was it finally over?
But it will never truly be
For it sits in my mind
haunting
Always
Copyright © Melisa Karpinske | Year Posted 2017
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