Falling Forward - Poetry and Haiku

By Tonya Young

Falling Forward is a book of poetry that gives you a piece of the author herself. A tiny light into the mind of an artist that has a passion for words like the greats who came before her. This collection like every other that this artist has written is her way of letting her readers into her mind if only for a few pages.

Read, laugh, cry and get lost in deep thought as you reminisce over your own experiences as the words of each poem washes over you. Above all else enjoy every page of this collection!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Sep 6, 2018
• ISBN: 9780359073214

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Falling Forward - Poetry and Haiku

Falling Forward

Tonya Young

Copyright

Copyright © 2018   Tonya Young

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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Printed in the United States of America

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Dedication

How do you even begin to tell the people who are most important in your life how much they mean to you?  Is it enough to dedicate your life works to them?  I don’t know, but I do dedicate this and everything else that I have written and will write in the future to my loving children, Aliyah, Anson, and Alexander.  You three are my muse, my strength, the only other thing besides my love for the Lord that keeps me hustling and making moves to do better and be better. 

Acknowledgements

I want to first thank my Heavenly Father. Without God nothing is possible, but with God, All Things Are Possible.

Alexander, Anson and Aliyah, thank you for being everything I always needed you to be.  Mom loves you all.

A-1

I clung to every thought of him

Dreamt of forever

In his arms

Got lost for just one moment

In the simple thought

Of being touched by him

Just once more

Until I opened my eyes

And realized

That the dirt

Falling over the casket of my love

Meant that forever

Was lost

A-2

I can see you staring at me

Curiosity

In your eyes

Yes

I have you wondering

Guessing

I checked other

On my job application

Used my middle name

Because I know the game

You eye the dark color

Of this girl’s skin

And you want to ask

Those words are on the tip of your tongue

But you smile instead

A-3

Foolish of me to think I’d cruise

Through this life

Without paying any dues

But here I am

Saddled with the blues

Heart broken

Bruised

By the one person

I never thought I’d lose

A-4

Fingers on your headstone

My mind is blown

By how quickly life passes us by

I trace your name

And say a prayer

Then look to the sky

To say my final goodbyes

Teetering on the edge

Of what could be something beautiful

She loses her footing

And falls into his outstretched arms

A-5

I’ve met a lot of boys

Brown, yellow, white

Short, tall, stocky and thin

Some cute

Some intelligent and interesting

Some artistic, finding creative ways to say that they want me

But it wasn’t until I met the man who said he needed me

That I saw the difference

A-6

I’m brilliant

But you can’t see past the mocha complexion

To see me for the gem I am

Resilient

Taking no for