Minutes Within an Hourglass

By Salisha D. Hill

It is my work from when I began to write up until now, where I played with different types of poetry and settled with deep poetry expressing my raw emotion.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jan 25, 2013
• ISBN: 9781477294994

Salisha D. Hill

I have been writing poetry since I was a freshman in high school. Writing has been something that has inspired me and helped me get through the hardest of times in my life, including depression, broken relationships, and death. The Lord has granted me this passion and I feel it is my obligation, my priority, to share my emotions to help others out there dealing with these same issues. I live with the man of my dreams, Daultin, in northern Indiana and plan on marrying him on May 26, 2014. I have a Boxer named Ellie, who is my world. Daultin and Ellie are my biggest fans. I attend college full time, with the goal of going to graduate school and becoming a mental health professional. I have a full time job, a part time job, and hope to begin writing more soon.

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© 2013 by Salisha D. Hill. All rights reserved.

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Published by AuthorHouse 01/21/2013

ISBN: 978-1-4772-9500-7 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4772-9498-7 (hc)

ISBN: 978-1-4772-9499-4 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2012922600

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Contents

a    

A Fairytale Truth

A Little Girl

A Mother’s Love

A Single White Rose

Above

After I Moved

All the Possibilities

Alternate Universe

Always Me

Asphyxiated Heart: An Elegy of Me

Autoimmune Disease Devastation

Awaiting Escape

b    

Beer Can in the Driver’s Seat

Begging

Believe

Biggest Mistake

Blam

Blue Lips

Blue Memories

Body of Mourning

Breaking the Bones

Broken Figure

Broken Hearted

c    

Came and Gone

Can You Ever Be

Christmas Love

Clockwork

Country Life

Crying, Not Sleeping

d    

Daddy’s Home

Darkest in Daylight

Days Left

Days Pass

Death of Caesar

Defeat

e    

Earthly Endeavors

Empty Questions

Extremes

Eye of the Beholder

Eye of Ghetto Prisoners

f    

Falling Out of Reach

Fly Away Kiss

Freedom

g    

Game Plan

Get Up and Start Something

God

Going, Going, Gone

Grow Up

h    

Had to Go

Help Me Understand

His Control

Home

How to Save a Life

i    

(I Don’t) Change

I am Jeep

I Care

I Cry

I Love Hate, I Hate Love

I Know

I Love the Way

I Miss You

I Need

I Notice

Ice Alone

I’ll Stay Faithful

In Memory

In the End

Injustice

k    

Kissing Misery

Kissing With Eyes Wide Open

l    

Label You Cruel

Laced With Arsenic

Last a Lifetime

Left in Silence and Tranquility

Legends of the Lost

Levels of Deceit

Life is Like an Open Window

Life Label

Life on the Lips of Lucifer

Limits

Living Words

Loss

Lost Among the Dead

Lost in Myself

Love: A Sonnet

Love Isn’t

Love vs. Hate

Love You Left Me

Lovesickness

Lured by Love

m    

Married Until the End

Middle of the Highway

Mirror Reflection

Misfits

Misleading Love

Mixed Up and Nowhere to Go

Mosquitos

Most Precious of Time

Mother of Mine

My Annabelle

My Boy

My Couplet

My Dark Place

My First

My Froggy Sonnet

My Guardian Angel

My Guardian Angel 2

My Heart

My Heroic Couplet

My Journey

My Limerick

My List of Love

My Lunch

My Memories, My Grandma

My Quatrain

My Questions

My Rocky

My So Long, Farewell

n    

Negligence

New Hobby

No Way Around It

Not Really

Not Sure

o    

One Day

One For All and All For Nothing

One Too Many Times

Only Thing That Counts

Oppression Freed

Overflow

p    

Panic Attack #1

Please Forgive Me

Praise Poem (Death)

Process of Plucking Petals

Puzzled

r    

Random

Reality Check

Reconsiderations

Remember

Rocks and Needles

s    

Sacred Philosophy

Safety Box

Said I’m Sad

Savage Lake

Scarlet River

School Wars

Seeing Isn’t Believing

Seeketh of You

Sleep No More

Slow Fade

So Much Negativity

Sometimes

Speed

Stalked and Murdered

States of Conciousness

Still

Straight Jacket Feeling

Stream

Stuck

Stupid

Suicide Poem

Suicide Vacation

t    

The Dating Proposal

The Final Frontier

The Letter

The Naïve, The Wise, The Forgotten

The Naked Truth

The Only Path

The Party

The Plath Effect

The Thing I Never Told You

Thennow

Thought Wrong

To Thy One, Thy Only

Tonight

Top of the World

Truth Beyond

Two Black Roses

u    

Uncovered Heart

v    

Vague

w    

Weakness

Weathered

What I

What I Don’t Know

What You Make of It

When I Sleep

Which Would You Rather Be: The Rock or The Rose

With or Without

Without You

Women of Sin and Lack of Peace of Mind

Wondered

Won’t

Worthless Words

y    

You and Me

You Are My Suicide

You Don’t Care

Youth and Youth Alone

Dedicated to my loving fiancé, Daultin, and

to my family who has been there for me through everything,

including my twin sister, Saleena, who helped me edit this book.

Also, to those who have played a role in getting me

to where I am today. Lastly, to those who have been angels

and guardians in my life and the lives of others.

A    

A Fairytale Truth

I’ll be a Sleeping Beauty without her kiss

Aladdin without his last wish

I’ll be a Cinderella without her slipper

Belle without her beast

I’ll be Snow White without her dwarves

Ariel without her way to shore

I’ll be Dora without Boots

Blue without clues

Tom Thumb shrunk to nothing

The princess with a million peas

Rapunzel with cancer

Ballerina without her dancer

A magician with no tricks

A doctor who’s too sick

A judge who is biased

A person who is priced

A singer with no talent

A scale with no balance

Without you, I’m nothing I’m supposed to be

I’m a lost child, I’m a small child

A concrete floor that is supposed to be tiled

I’ll be a radio with no sound

A TV with no signal

This was never love, but it was better

I hope this won’t be my last letter

Without you I’m nothing I’m supposed to be

I’m a cup with a hole at the bottom

I’m a fairy tale without a happy ending

I’m a race of people without a language

The shoulder you leaned on is now weak

The help you so often needed, you seeked

When you were hungry, dinner was ready

A fine young gentleman who needed to be steady

Without you, I’m nothing I’m supposed to be

My mind goes blank, I can’t think

My eyes blue, tear-filled, I can’t blink

My heart is torn open, sewn shut, will shrink

I’ll be Peter Pan without Tink

Harry Potter without his friends

This is where it’s pressured, rules tend to bend

Thoughts begin to wander into a pretty, black hole

Then every Christmas you know you’ll get coal

Every breath you take breaks until you’re very cold

Your words slip out, you don’t mean what you say

You seek help from the One who’ll listen, you pray

You say, "I’ve lost someone dear, I’ll miss her year to year, I’ve lost all my friends, my peers,

I’m nothing I’m supposed to be, so on sheds my tears."

A Little Girl

A little girl, about ten years old

Couldn’t tell what should have been told

She cried each night, alone and helpless

Who could help her, who could save her?

If she told, what would happen?

Would no one believe her, would she get hurt again?

Where would she go? A new place? The same? Homeless?

Again she cried, alone and helpless

A little girl, about twelve years old

Finally told what she knew she should tell

Even though her pain was so cold

She knew her life would no longer be hell

When she told, it was a shock to all

The man kicked out and hated

No longer would she have to give herself away

She could keep