Vonda Overlie Poems

You wait around every corner, looking for a point to strike.
Hoping I have my guard down and my life is filled with strife.

You never soften your punches, It hurts more and more each blow.At times my heart feels so heavy, and the blood is hard to flow.
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The canvas is bare where colorful paints use to play.

Days of rainbows and laughter and long walks on summer nights.
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Your guilt buttons broken, someone flipped the switch
Was it just you or a tag team?

Broken in my eyes, yet whole in anothers.
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Wild, uninhibited free to be me.
Not wanting to conform to the image of a 'Mom'

I am a woman. Desire burns in me.
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Another day, another time, life seemed so carefree.
The most of my worries were the color of the curtains.
Bright Red I wanted them to be.
Perhaps a warning.
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I examine you.. I have captured beautiful pictures of you in my mind's eye
Your broad shoulders draw me down to your lean waist, a man of strength
Your textured, manly arms hold me, I feel safe
I notice yours hands, your fingers, down to the nail beds, even those are memorable
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Hearing your voice today brought me back. Laughing, feeling a connection.
Family.
Hearing your voice made me feel a part, a knowing, I belong to a Family.
We laughed about our past, planned happy thoughts for our future.
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Side by side we strode, going our merry way.
Playing our parts to perfection.

You the tomboy me the sissy
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PICTURES


I keep looking at your face in the picture,
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My heart yearns for my homeland when my spirit felt young and free.
Living in exile in the desert, I thirst.

Shallow breaths taken further and further apart.A shell left dying.
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