Kathy's Poems -1

Raw You'd think It would be Therapy To put it all down And pick it out On keys that click Heartsick And Afraid Of the truth The painful Charade Trying to say Yet Concealing The way It really feels Peeling Layers of skin Away Revealing How thin The heavy woman Really is Sign in to see full entry.

Divorced I used to notice The kind of people I’ve become And wondered Somewhat casually How They managed To survive I never learned The answer And Now I ask myself Why I never even knew How The one I used to be Survived Sign in to see full entry.

Caution We’ve got to be So careful And Pay such close Attention Because I might cry When Someone Wants to mention Why I’m better off without him Or Decides To tell me That I should move on And Forget him Even I know That’s a lie If I might die Without him Sign in to see full entry.

The Whole Page of Me" I have been replaced Its getting Harder To breathe I guess He just erased The Whole Page Of me As his wife That He said He loved to read I feel The teardrops As they bleed From my weary soul Rushing Out To Heal The Crushing Rage Sign in to see full entry.

Dust I ponder Every piece Of dust That I thought I possessed The specks Appear In flashes I never guessed They were not mine To keep I cannot rest The loss Has burned so deep I’m searching For The ashes Sign in to see full entry.

Rest It would be Nice To rest again If I could And feel like Someone was watching Out for me Just long enough to Sleep awhile He might just stroke my forehead The way my mother used to do Or lie on the floor beside my bed The way Paul Andrey would Or push the fear away From my head And coax me... Sign in to see full entry.

Off the Couch Poem Another chapter No couch Or pet dog My reason is meager My spirit is clogged Where is the hope That I put aside After so much assurance That his love would abide A shift of trust In a past mistake That has gone to rust In its rainy lake And the feeling of falling And slipping away... Sign in to see full entry.

Reference Point Looking back With tears And Forward With fears Stop measuring the years In marriage terms Learn A new reference point Sign in to see full entry.

Goodbye I think about you And the past I even dream And experience Real anger now How is it that you Are still hanging Around Inside my head I can’t declare That our love is dead Then neither can I move Toward the future I am not sure how To say goodbye For fear That I might die Of losing you Again Sign in to see full entry.

If Only Every time He leaves Or Turns Away I cry For the joy Of Alone And Discovering me Again If o nly I Could Uncover a way To embrace And not Misplace Myself Then I Would Yearn For Him To stay Sign in to see full entry.