You Have To Share Me Poem by Jeri Martindale

Take me away from myself and show me your magic, I'd like to see it come from someone other than me, so I know I'm not insane!

I would go willingly, really I would. Won't you just hold out your hand to me and take me with you to ecstasy.

I want to feel chills down my body and see stars in my eyes as you touch my face. It's getting harder and harder to make myself escape.

Please don't make me stay alive in reality. I'd much rather be skipping along the stone pathway you made up in your own mind, I've let you explore mine.

Why is it so hard to close your eyes, to open up your heart so that I can climb and search every inch, to know you from the inside.

We would really then be alive, a fire blazing so high in the sky that the angels and GOD could feel it's warmth all the time.

Do no wait until the last minute to reach out for me, to keep me as our own. I will be gone by then my dear and I will not cry this time.

My time is precious, I must feel alive, please end this insanity and dig out the key and set me free so that my light may shine.

Don't you understand I have a soul that must be shared with the world and not just kept to yourself all alone?

You see these dark circles, no smiles on my face? Yea, that is what happens when you keep me shut off from the world. I try to claw my way out, I have failed or been kicked back down many times.

The sun must touch my skin, the wind must be able to touch me, or I go to this dark place that I do not like to got to; I become someone that I don't not wish to be, not myself, not true.

Don't you understand this when you look into my eyes so blue? Do you still see me when you look at me, because I really don't recognize myself as I use to.

Wake up, set me free, throw away that damn key and my love for you will explode and become the very thing you wanted this whole time, but didn't want to get rid of or lose.

My colors are beautiful, yes people stare, GOD made me to capture the attention of others, to call them to me from every part of who I am.

My soul use to shine, a beacon, guiding me, others through life. let me be this beacon again please. It's my life, I have to share myself, my soul, my light.