"Welcome, Spring!"

Welcome, spring!
By: Beth Baber

Laying in the cool, crisp grass,
Sun’s warmth caresses your body
Wind rustles your hair
Whispers spring promises in your ear
Release.

Smell the excitement, new beginnings.
Heart skips a beat.
Hear the plants growing, stretching their leaves to greet the sun.
Happiness seeps through your skin,
And flows to your thoughts
Calm.

A bead of sweat slides down your back.
Hot sun has come out to gives salutations.
Cold drink refreshes.
Smell of fresh cut grass fills the air.
Breathe.

All the animals awake,
To stretch their weary bones.
A butterfly lands on your arm.
Open your eyes,
A Creepy Spider!
Run!

"Destruction"

Destruction
By: Beth Baber

Oh those words!
Those vile, words,
That spill out of your mouth
And fill the air with
sounds of death.

Utter and Complete
Hate.
The webs you weave,
Those lies you spin.
Monster.

“Am I the monster?”
You ask, when reality does set in.
Every person can destroy,
By opening their mouth
You know not of the damage you inflict,

"Imagine"

“Imagine.”
By: Beth Baber

The depths of the
Heart and mind,
released only by
Serene dreams so sweet
And kind.

Imagination soars
And takes flight
pieces taken from the cell of the
dreamer’s heart the fragments of
bliss in which they delight.

Only here can a
weary soul find rest
peace and serenity.
Intricate dreams do form,
In the sleeping minds of the blessed.

Oh sweet dreams!
The tranquil place of spotless minds.
Where the imagination does soar,
And the heart and soul are joined.
No better peace to find.

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Careless
By: Beth Baber

At the root of my fury,
Lies the driving force
Of my anger,
Passion, my dear.

All this trouble simply because,
I want to be with
You.

Words, that so effortlessly
Spill out of your mouth and
Drill their way in my head,
It’s so easy to believe you.

This was a disaster,
From those cursed beginnings,
To those blessed ends.
In between we found ourselves.

But now its gone
So we’ll move on,
And know that this is the end.

Oh miserable night,
We’ve all lost ourselves
And our side
I believed in what you said.

You’ve won,
Accept the outcome,
Not just what’s been gained,
But the Battle wounds,
And the broken houses

Forgiving is my nature,
So I’ll forget what shouldn’t
Be forgot.
And move on.

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"Colors"
By: Beth Baber

The world,
Pulls and drags,
Down to the heartless depths of oppression.

Wake up!
See yourself for who you really are.

Growing weary of
This constant struggle, to find yourself
Only to be lost again. A system as changing as the
Inconsistent heart.

Just as the confusion becomes,
Unbearable.
A hand reaches out to save you.
Desperate you take it.

See me for who I am.
Look into my eyes, no not just the color
Look deeper inside of me.

Deep, inside the cell of my heart,
Is where my true existence lives,
If only my soul could free itself.

I’m different you’ll see.
You can’t imagine the depth to me.
Stop limiting yourself to the normal
Open your eyes! See the color!
The beautiful, brilliant colors
Of life.

I’ll do as I’m told,
And mask my individuality
And hide the things that make me
Unique.

So you’ll tell me who I need to be
And I’ll conform to that,
If it pleases society and
You.

"Sears Tower"

Eh.. it's still a work in progress but i had to get it out

“Sears Tower”

By: Beth Baber

Child is sleeping,
Sweet and Innocent.
Breathing rises and falls.
All is still, all is good.

Secrets and guilt grow,
Wishing to forget,
Engulf her every action,
Destroying, innocence

I put on a cotton dress,
Fix my hair, brush my teeth.
Look in the mirror, See a lie,
Still the mirror hangs on an unsteady nail
I hate what I saw.

And he says, ‘run, girl, run,
Run until dawn until the crayons break and color the sky
then they’ll awake in the morning to find you gone
when they search the houses
We must stay hidden’

I went with him, far away
Ran into the sun, I escaped
Didn’t want to come back again
Too much they didn’t know
Happened in the morning

‘They’ve found him,
They killed him’ my mother speaks
Calm, Collected, I stay
For I have not been torn apart yet
I wouldn’t believe his death until I see it

Pulling back the covers,
I sob, and you see
The terrible monster I have hidden,
All is known, all is known.

I put on my cotton dress,
Look in the mirror,
See the ugly truth, my skin grows cold
Mirror falls and crashes
I am falling I am breaking.

I am cut open, I am exposed
You see my brains,
You see the ugly thing that grows inside of me
You’ve seen my hidden actions.
I saw you standing in the doorway.

I am ugly and broken,
I am real, I am alive.
Rid me from the things that destroy
Free me from my thoughts
Shield me from my monster.

Open my heart,
Look inside, Maybe your words will
Travel to the hidden parts
Medicine drops
My beating organ

Secrets like
Black water run deep
underneath my concrete ground
where I build my home, where I tie up my safety nets
He found a way in.

Open heart surgery
Someone sees deeper
All along I knew it was wrong
It turned to fire, and burnt my hands

He isn’t dead
He still whispers to me
His presence is there, cannot leave with him again
I have to face me, I’d be revealed again
Only to bring truth

Truth that washes me,
Falls and cleans my broken body
Wind blows over my shape, Sun shines on my face
Heart beats strong
I am that child again