Poems
High School Crush
Words left unsaid
Diaries un-read
For fear it would betray
The turmoil in my head
I see other girls you're with
And imagined it was me
But hide for shame you will discover
My rabid jealousy.
I want to unleash passion's fist
To make you understand
How you could choose a girl
Who'd easily discard you
Over a girl who'd treat you
Like a man
As I watch your bevy of shrews
That could easily set you free
I fantasise on a first kiss from
That would never be.
I can't seem to fathom
In a World that could be caring
How you continue to choose
All that's vulgar, troublesome
Or domineering
When you finally came around
To a shyer love like me
Even though I've always loved you
All I wanted to do was flee
Because you and your company of sirens
Seemed to never part
And I was tired of singing
'How could an Angel break my heart?'
Even though I'm grown
You have never set me free
Of the umbilical cord of a love
That would never let me be.
- Lisa Gaye Taylor
Loneliness
This loneliness traps me like a prison
I am encased in its suffocating grip
Its iron shackles pin my heart
Securely in the dark dreary pit
Of despair and longing.
This stranglehold on my heart
Tightens and threatens to
Suck the oxygen from the thread-like dreams
Of ever finding true love.
Its thunderous crush
Presses
Relentlessly Against the dying pulse of optimism that
Delays the dying light of fading hope.
This cell of loneliness
Stifles my angry shouts and
Suppresses m maddening cries for
Genuine love and devotion
And final freedom from this fiery furnace of
the dragon of dejection.
Edwin Davis