A Day in Life

By Janeen Abdo

Throughout life, people experience ups and downs. There is birth, love, and death. The basics of life. We must also accept there are memories, good and bad. Happy and pain that should always find balance and that is what life is about. Trial and reward. Happiness and heartache. Remembering to laugh even in the ugly, just living is the reward in its self. I have experienced ups and downs, no different from anyone else. These poems and short stories are ones I have written throughout my life. I hope you can relate to them.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Janeen Abdo
• Release date: Aug 24, 2019
• ISBN: 9781393197256

Janeen Abdo

Loving literature and the adventure a good book can take you inspired me as a young child to be an avid reader. As I grew older I played with poetry finding unique ways to send messages that were dear to me. As an adult, my messages have become less dark and more concerned. My first series of books are short novelettes about the Elementals and the destruction of the Earth. The mistreatment of the Earth and its inhabitants are something that I hold dear to me. Recognizing everyone is unique but should be allowed to express themselves.  The fantasy realms help me leave the world we live in, and adventure in one we would only dream of.   The adventures I write are a combination of my dreams and beliefs brought to life. I had worked in manufacturing most of my life and had been downsized several times. I went on to college received a Bachelor’s degree in Business Programs and am now a Buyer/Planner by day and Fantasy write by night. Writing started out as a way to express and vent about the trials of life. It has grown to be a way to share with others who want to get away from the stress of life to a world of beauty and magic. 

Book preview

Behind the Doors

I opened the doors

Do you walk inside?

Do you close the doors?

The question is asked

The answers are unknown

The feeling of fear fills you

Do you walk away?

Look inside and see

Time tells you the days

Skies tell you the moods

But you say how

You must see and risk

To move on without looking

Leaves the wonder of it all

Open the doors to see

What is needed to be done

My eyes show my soul

The dreams are my wishes

Nightmares are the fears

Help me find the answers

Behind closed doors

Darkness Rises

The nights move quickly

To reach the sky

The moon shines through

The stars breaking the black

The pools of emptiness

Drowning all that's near

To hear the screams

Reality is not rare

Blood pours from the wounds

These are not to be seen

The scars cover nothing

The lies and secrets are to be seen

Waking of screams

They are your own

The memories have gone bad

Remembering the ages of when life began

The flames are shooting out the sky

Confusion is the fires burning high

To forget the past-

—Is ignorance to the future

To live in the past-

—Is ignorance to life

Dreams

Colors are fading

Into a darkness

A world begins

Only to be yours

Anything Happens

Your wishes deep inside

Your fears become too real

As your soul comes alive

Let go and move on

But something keeps coming

Open your eyes- It’s all a dream

It keeps returning- It’s something more

Could it be memories - keep haunting you

Could it be wishes -waiting to come true

What a dream can be

A desire only you know

A fear from within your own soul

A future- A past

Open your eyes the dreams always last

Eyes of Soul

There is a crazy gypsy

In my soul, she lives

Dancing all around me

Laughing in my head

Her colors are blinding

Her questions unworthy

Her lies of no end

The twisting of my mind

She plays to win

It’s a world of lost hope

Dreams that never end

The path that I seek

She exploits it

I know this gypsy

From so long ago

She picked me up

As I fall so low

She holds me tight

I cannot leave

So now it is my time to fight

My sanity is on the line

Up, are the walls she builds

They have cracks and chips

Yet they never fall

I must break them down

To live another day

I must find my hopes

Then make my dreams come true

This gypsy must let me go

A long time has passed

I am this crazy gypsy in my soul

I built the walls so long ago

My fears and doubts are what make them grow

I push them aside

I come to life

I see the colors

The pool of blue

Just enough

To set me free

The length of blackness

Holding on to all

To linger and stare

To bring on all the strength

All that needs to be done

Go

There will come a day

We must go our separate ways

The feeling inside our hearts-

——will turn to pain

The loss that I feel—

——Will have to be cherished

No longer will I feel your warmth

No longer will I smell your scent

I hate this feeling

It is coming quicker for me

All I have left is memories

Before this day

It is time for me to let go

You have a life to live

Your future is unknown

I cannot keep holding you back

You have a light inside of you

You must let it glow and live

Never giving up, I know it is hard

I am giving you up to you

Hear My Cry

Set back

Time for now