MY VOICE The external voice Inside my head Is so loud That I fear My voice May be dead But how can something That has never thrived Be without life? Its only known The edge Of a serrated knife Whose teeth have Caught and ripped And sliced Me into individual pieces Of someone else’s creation…

CLAN Define me as an individual Not by the color of my skin I am more than my covering I am diverse in Many ways And my personality Comes in different shades Not just of browns But of reds and blues Pinks and greens And yellows, too I am every shade known And unknown to…

TOXIC I loved you With all of me Fool you are You just couldn’t see Or appreciate My love and affection You’d rather be embraced By contempt and rejection That love you unconsciously crave Is dead and toxic And its effects on your being Have left you hypoxic So much so, you took me for…

RESTLESS My restless soul grows weary Of searching every night For the man who stole my heart And then fled and took flight I have searched high and low I have even asked the crow If he has caught sight of A man with a stolen heart He said he had but refused to impart…

FOOLISH MAN You can’t just come back in I have trust issues I’ve cried too many nights And used too much tissue Day after day I sat and I pondered How could a man Take for granted and squander Love freely given Without one condition And expect to come back Without the slightest contrition To…

THE WOLVES How does one keep The wolves at bay When they are on the hunt Night and day Where can I run Where can I hide From the prying Of their fiendish eyes I can no longer bear The sounds of their gnarling teeth Lord, give me strength Please do bequeath For, I do…

D-DAY Today I found myself Distraught By the jumbled Disorder Of my thoughts I felt a bit Dismayed And by their obstinate Delay I was fraught Simona A. Brinson Photo by Mark Claus on Unsplash © 2021 mylifeinword.com All Rights Reserved.

FORGOTTEN WORLD Eighteen years ago I tossed my cell phone Into the rubbish container It was then the I stumbled upon A long forgotten world A world where beauty rests On the petals of flowers And skies glisten In greens and golds Where I can close my eyes And hear the whispers That float along…

DISORDER From the moment our eyes met I was all out of sorts My mind lost it bearings And my emotions their support My internal sign flashed “OUT OF ORDER!” As if I had been stricken With a nameless disorder I could not even Formulate a thought Because the essence of my soul Was confused…