terri kay Poems

Would you rather:
look into my eyes and seek my soul?

or watch tv, read blogs, speculate sports?
...

With bricks of pain
fired hard with experience
and sealed with a mortar of tears
the wall around my heart, which was carelessly eroded
...

Even though your absence
has plunged into my chest
and tore my still-beating heart
out from my insides
...

Thanks again
for all you've been
you've shown me- me
I'm myself again
...

I've been waiting for the train
the one I've been on before
to whisk into the station
and take me away. Again.
...

A lady will never complain or whine
When someone asks, reply 'just fine'
And smile sweetly, whatever it takes
Although, beneath, your heart does break
...

I don't know why
but I think it will be
different this time.

There is my age,
...

I was thinking about your face this morning.

And then,
I remembered to breathe.
...

look into my eyes
and silence me
with
a
...