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You stand there
As still as a statue.
Its dark and soon
You become the shadow
Of my past.
Only coming around when the present
Looks too good to be true.
Written By: Deirdre Stokes
Tag: helpless
Frustrated
For my heart is in a place that doesn’t seem safe.
The thorns grow more out of control each day.
Poking and causing pain like never before.
There is no situation to what my heart is going through.
There’s not even an explanation to how this started or when it will end.
So I’m frustrated to the point of I’m just standing here waiting for something to happen.
For I have no moves left to take and no words left to say.
Written By: Deirdre Stokes
Beauty come back to me!
What started off so beautiful as the sunset
quickly turned so dark, and I couldn’t stop myself from walking right into the quicksand.
Soon it was dragging me down.
How did I get so far away from that beauty I once got so blinded by.
On a journey all on my own, I can’t let the darkness slip in through the
cracks of my life anymore.
So beauty when your ready to come back I will be waiting with my lights on.
Written By: Deirdre Stokes
Copyright ©️ 2016 By Deirdre Stokes
Hurt
by your words as they pour out of your mouth.
Time sometimes can’t fix the things that don’t go
away as each day passes by.
Those words haunt you for the rest of your life.
Floating around in your head and no matter how hard you try to forget them.
They don’t go away and they are burned in your memory like a tattoo is inked into your skin.
Forever apart of your life, whether you like it or not.
Written By: Deirdre Stokes
Not a concern anymore!
What am I waiting for
your not coming back
for awhile.
I’m a lost toy to you something you out grown.
I’m in the dust under your bed in the deep corners you never looked.
To afraid to see the truth, if only one more push.
You would have found me and maybe then no one would feel hurt.
Like a memory from the past, I’m not a concern anymore.
And when years have past and you decide to redecorate.
You move that small bed and there I am.
I am old and you barely recognize me.
But you smile as a memory comes to you.
Then you toss me to the trash and like that I’m gone for good.
Written By: Deirdre Stokes
Ignored
Neglected by your silence
Rejected by your lack of words.
How much longer do I try to stand by.
For you to figure out I’m not as tough as I seem.
Written By: Deirdre Stokes
Street
A street that is less traveled as the one thing in life gets in the way.
Snow or better known as the problem.
Sometimes it comes down on you slowly and quick and with a blink of the eye it’s gone.
But sometimes it’s quick and painfully long as it comes into your life and doesn’t leave for a lifetime.
It blocks the only street you have to get out and the fight to get out just disappears.
And a blanket of resentment and fear and regret and helplessness covers over you.
And you wonder if your street will ever be the same and once you get out.
Will that be without bumps and bruises?
Probably not for this problem is better waited out.
Eventually it will go away.
Written By: Deirdre Stokes
Pretending never last!
Sometimes I can pretend that it’s all okay
but the truth is pretending can only last for
so long before the true feelings come back
stronger than before.
And as they hit me the wind is knocked out of me.
And I can’t pretend anymore.
Written By: Deirdre Stokes
I didn’t want it be this way
For I still care so much but
it feels so wrong to stay.
The words are pouring out of me and you
can’t seem to help me stop and now
I’m stuck in-between should I stay or should I go.
Written By: Deirdre Stokes
Lonely
An acoustic poem written by only using the letters of the word lonely and has to be about the word lonely.
Left alone I hear about the lies
Only you know the truth
No one seems to want to tell me the truth as the
Echo’s of the lie run through my mind as I sit alone and I see the
Lips so un true smile back at me as everyone stays away from me, I try to get help so this would all end. But those lips begin to
Yell at me to go away for I’m not wanted and no one wants to know me. And so I’m alone again.
Written By: Deirdre Stokes
Sometimes words hurt
The day you threw everything at me with your words, and it was like someone hitting me over and over with rotten tomatoes.
There wasn’t a good outcome to this situation.
As I tried to run they begun to hit me harder and I stumbled a couple of times trying to get my footing.
Then I feel nothing as I got too far away for your tomatoes to hit or hurt me and I am free.
I finally can smile and lift my arms to the air as I feel the pain slide away like the mess of the tomatoes from my clothes.
And I know this time I won’t let that happen again for I’m stronger now.
My words will block out yours, and if that fails I will just put on my headphones and walk away.
Written By: Deirdre Stokes
Uncertain
I let myself move on from what happened.
But I never truly got over it, for these uncertainties keep coming up.
Even though your gone from my life and mind.
I need to face the truth that it was not me and that you made me feel like I was a bother.
I question that every time I talk to someone more than once a day.
Am I this person that clings so I won’t be alone.
And can I handle being alone and on my own.
Or am I to broken to get over that I’m not a bother and that someone will want me around.
Written By: Deirdre Stokes
I just wanted your time
Is that so hard to ask
Can’t you see the sadness in my eyes
as I stand in front of you, do I need to wave for you to help me.
For some reason you walk right by me and I feel the pain hit me all over again.
I’m just a ghost now and still you show no emotions towards me.
I just wish it didn’t have to come to this but I can’t go back
I’m not like a movie you can’t rewind and go back and stop it before it happens
I’m gone and all I wanted was your time.
Written By: Deirdre Stokes
I wonder what will happen!
I wonder how I would be if I truly let you be.
Would it help me not feel this way.
But some how even though I want to stay away I say something so you pull me back in.
Will I ever want to pull away.
Even though I want to stay forever even if it’s nothing more than just an friendship.
Written By: Deirdre Stokes
Who truly knew her!
What to let out because it’s suffocating me if I don’t get a release soon.
Things seem so different on this side of things.
so much sadness that is so well hidden comes flooding out today.
what is there to say as she looks out the window wishing things were different.
She hides it all so well that the positivity radiating off her would makes you think she genuinely happy.
But behind closed doors she cries to herself and no one will ever know unless she lets you in.
And she won’t because that leads to disappointment and false hope that things will get better for her.
No one realizes how much of her is left and over time she will be gone and there won’t be anyone holding on to the memories of her.
She will just be gone like yesterday, the joys, the laugher, the smile, the affection and the meaning of how much she gave will not ever be known.
Written By: Deirdre Stokes