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revered father (suicide survivor)

December 14, 2002
i am here.
i want to b in your arms
i miss u
I shed a tear.
i see the thunderstorms.
I want just one more rendezvous.
i wanna smoke one more with you
i wanna hear your voice
i want to ignore your bad advice
i rememeber you
i have forgotten all the fights
U told me to go
I pushed you away
I saw the crow
I see the darkness
I just want to turn on the lights
I feel the cold
I feel the frost
I must confess
I cry for my father
i wish i could have been there
i would have hidden the gun
i would have told u i loved u
i would have said i need u
I would have said don't leave everyone.
I would have given u one more hug
i would have
I should have
I could have

Father can't you hear me cry?
Father can you hear me?
Father can't u see?
Father can u feel the cold?
Father look at what you are doing to me.
Father I am so alone.
Father can you hear me scream?
Father can you hear me?
Father u didn't have to be so bold.
Father you could have tried.
Father can u see the dream?
Father I wish i could have known.
There's no one there to hear me cry.
There is no one there to see me fly.
There is no one there to sing the lullaby.
There is no one there.
Goodbye.
by: s.e. star

Copyright S.E. Star Used with Permission


Lonely Rain Cloud


I always notice it.
Some people don�t. But I do.
A dense whisk of cotton, the colour of smoke.
Blurry around the edges. Shimmering, too.
Changing shape as it changes it�s position
in the cold, white sky.
A lonely rain cloud.
Blown away from everything else.
All alone with a heavy, dark pain bottled up inside it.
It�s only company.
It looks peaceful. Not following the crowd.
You�d think it�d want to stand out.
Not have to carry anyone else�s load.
No. No rain cloud likes to be alone.
Do you?
It�s a lone rain loud.
Lonely.
Cut off.
Broken up with just a part of it left.
Dark and cold. Drowning in itself.
You might think it easier to hold everything in, being on it�s own.
An empty assumption.
Clouds need to cry.
Especially the lonely rain clouds.
They�re the ones that cry the most.
And for a lonely, small rain cloud, it�s the hardest.
Because when they need to cry�
There�s no one to cry with�

By Amy Finch

Copyright Amy Finch
Used with Permission

Is It Right?


Paris is a lovely dream,
But yet to be seen by a British
Poet.
A portrait style of a painted
Postcard stands in her
Mind.
Is it right?
A watery painting of beauty and
City pollution
Escaped.
Is it right?
Mimes on the famous terraces and
Violins playing, but oh so silent
In their watery
Brush strokes.
Is it right?
Rain glazed cobbles, slippery to
Look at in their curves,
Impossible to run on,
Yet so many silhouettes dancing
In front of fairy lights,
All of which shimmer
And swing on none existent
Wires.
Is it right?
A painted postcard
Decorated with quaky and
Lumpy acrylic smears.
Is it right?
A postcard
A reflection of the real thing
Multiplied a thousand times
And laminated
In a factory,
Where British poets who
Have yet to see Paris
Can pretend to appreciate
Fine art.
Is it right?

By Amy Finch

Copyright Amy Finch
Used with Permission

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