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Selena Tiffany Poem
I arose to the sun beating on my face
Stretching out all the aches and pains
Rubbing out the old stale tears from all the yesterdays
Whipping the sweat of all the left over strength from my pale brow
Sitting up, ignoring the pits that bellow beneath my stomach blue
Lazily peeling the strand of hair that seemed to hug the side of my lip
My lips chapped with defeat and thirsty for just a splash of elegant water
Standing up, fighting off the sleepy tingles that creep up the center of my spine
Wishing for those few and far between extra minutes that bend my dreams in half
A brand new day, awake and still dreaming
Walking desperately to the room that hides my flaws
Until I glance effortlessly and unwillingly in the mirror that stares back at me
Almost stalking me with its lustful glare
It is I whom eyeballs that once folded smile
I am beautiful in fact-beautiful in part-beautiful instead of dead wonder and
amazement.
To the cracking sound of the rays pushing through the clouds
Like thunder that breaks my heart in two
That secret warm wind finds its way to dance in and out of my hair, and my life.
A long deep breath, oh that somber crispness that invades all privacy
Again peering back at…me. Yellow my teeth have aged and stained
For one brief second remembering that piercing pain of my very first and young
tooth
Adolescence lost
I am old with love, old with hate, and old with excellence.
Aged to a fine wine, and bitter with the taste of passion
My skin, like leather; Tough to break, but has the snap of a whip
Thoughts fade in and out, like a wave meeting the shore, it slithers back lost in
sand
Lost in time, an hour has past and still not dressed
Those lingering hints of cheap perfume mixed with 20 years of sex that sleeps
within my sheets, with me, under me, and over.
I smile at the creases and pruned wrinkles that have invaded my once virgin
mouth
Only if I could peel this shell, this facade that I've hidden behind,or have grown
into.
That silver, shinny and brilliant with the essence of once a deep chocolate brown
Heavy are those lids that seem to hang beneath my once glamorous lashes, and
accented with a miserable gray tint
It’s ok…I've grown, with that tree outside my door; my leaves too are wilting.
Falling with only the beauty of a million laughs and tears
Throughout those years I've left behind, but reminisce and savor.
Copyright © Selena Tiffany | Year Posted 2007
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Selena Tiffany Poem
Shattering all these tears left behind; to dine upon the years.
Lost and dilated, all the hated and forgotten dreams .
Seems as though this foe we stand on is hovering in times hands .
Whispering the breaths of "I love you's" and missing all the kisses.
Walking amid the flowers of the tomorrows and the yesterdays.
Staying forever and never to be seen again.
Around the bend of smiles and hugs
I wait in patients stillness, for the bliss that will hold me close.
I chose you and only you to clutch and care,
I chose to bar e my soul
Low and behold my tears my pain, this stain will wash off soon.
To shed its skin of all within this thing we call love.
A dove will sail with wings do purge the glory and the madness
A story of two strangers meeting beyond the sun,
And finding themselves as one.
A gift from heaven and a lesson to learn,
A permanent burn on my heart.
I give to you this poem true;
My love, my honor, and all that is me.
For you to see, to hear, to hold.
Proudly bending the night to day I pray for you to come.
And the stars laugh and the nights cry,
But the sun is as strong as I.
And through the fog you rise and be
And I see you watching me.
-S-JUNE172005
Copyright © Selena Tiffany | Year Posted 2007
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