POEMS
Invisible Chains
Your words, like a double-edged sword
Charm, beguile
Pierce, stab,
Fool flattered, seduced by your
Butter smooth talk I f
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Into your web.
Poison’s acid jokes poke fun,
Humiliate the subtle ‘put down’; sarcastic jibe,
Masked sneers of manipulation.
Mixed messages infiltrate like seeping bindweed
Choke my spirit.
Accommodating, appeasing, I justify, forgive
Blindly feeding your appetite of POWER and CONTROL.
Robber romance sneaks in
Snakely soothing verbal punches -
Shrouds inner scars.
A firm path ………
Now strewn with eggshells
But hope enslaves my crushed heart………
Sharon Champion 2007
Poisin Kiss
Fool flattered,
Beguiled, I f
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Into your web.
Spun cunning spools me in,
I tread silken thread, balance your tightrope.
Lulled vulnerable,
I relax........
Creeping whispers rock my cradle,
"Am I too fat, too thin
Hair too long, too short,
Voice too loud, too soft?"
Stuck sticky now as you brood crafty
Pounce from hammock's deceit.
Poison kiss paralyzes.
I am bandaged in a silk cocoon
But my wings are broken.
Sharon Champion 2007
About Love
"I love you" is a phrase I often tell myself
When no-one else can hear.
I wouldn't want to sound conceited
and to lose the love of others.
But, for all their love,
whether I think I need it or not,
nobody tells me they love me
as much as I would like them to,
nobody other than myself.
Because I really and truly
am my own best friend,
my own lover,
and love does not require perfection.
Love does not have to have reasons
to love.
Love is a pleasure
to give myself and I like to feel pleasure.
I don't have to prove my love to myself.
I simply love.
"I love you" is a phrase I say
to other people.
I mean it when I say it
because I like the pleasure
of giving people
the pleasure of being loved.
I like the pleasure of being able to give the gift of love.
It is a true gift.
I don't have to have any reasons to love.
I don't have to prove my love.
I don't have to give anything more than love.
I simply love.
And, if it is best for me to walk away.
from a person who cannot appreciate my love
and does not know how to love in return,
I do not blame myself for giving love
or for trying too hard.
Love does not require me to be perfect.
I have plenty more love that I can give myself
and to others with pleasure,
without regret.
Because love is an endless gift that
I can give to myself and to whoever I wish,
yet no-one can force it from me
and no-one can stop me from giving it.
Love is my power forever.
I am learning to use my power wisely.
I can give myself love forever
Love is my gift to give.
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