I’ll write by candlelight
‘Cause I don’t want my words
Illuminated for all to see
Want them hidden, even from me. Continue reading “Misplaced Missive #45: Words”
Category: Writers – Jessie
Moonlit Musing – Confessions
Admittance of Having Done Nothing Wrong
I’m concerned if secrecy is breached,
If silence is broken,
Then history will simply repeat
Leading to my heart’s defeat
Under your feet.
Trampled again in a well rehearsed dance. Continue reading “Moonlit Musing – Confessions”
Loop Poetry – Rock, Paper, Scissors
So I submitted this poem at Poet’s Corner. =) feel free to check it out in it’s entirety at the link below:
There’s somethin’ comfortin’ about being face down on the ground, Ground down by life’s natural violence, Violence treated as commonplace; a happenstance of race. Race you to the bottom – complacent in compliance….
Jessie Gutierrez
Moonlit Musing – Saying Goodbye
DMC
I never felt safer than seated
– across –
From you arguing.
I never told you Continue reading “Moonlit Musing – Saying Goodbye”
Moonlit Musing – Closure
Done
I am done being a lamb to your slaughter.
Tired of once more being willingly offered,
Weakness embodied, devotion
I thought I was owing… Continue reading “Moonlit Musing – Closure”
Misplaced Missive #41: Fallen
Fallen like acid rain,
Burning instead of cleansing.
All I want is my sins absolved away:
Tell me it’s okay to feel this way. Continue reading “Misplaced Missive #41: Fallen”
Color Schemes – All My Words Are Lost At Sea
I know what you’re thinking:
That I’m hiding,
In these dusty old books of mine.
Don’t you know you’re always on my mind?
I’m in here trying to find,
The right words to recite to you. Continue reading “Color Schemes – All My Words Are Lost At Sea”
Moonlit Musing: Unreciprocated
Gutted
Love is just like any other domesticated pet-
If it isn’t fed, it will waste away
To nothing. Continue reading “Moonlit Musing: Unreciprocated”
Moonlit Musings – Sufferings
I am not so strong as to be glad of my sufferings,
And yet not so weak as to wish them forgotten. Continue reading “Moonlit Musings – Sufferings”
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