Time Doesn't Always Heal . . . Sometimes It Only Hides the Scars

By Xlibris US

This is a compilation of poems that give insight to the darker more emotional mind states that we as human beings experience but do not voice . . . Expressing these thoughts and feelings can serve as a tool to emotional cleansing as well as closure for some individuals . . .

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: May 20, 2014
• ISBN: 9781499010213

Book preview

THESE WORDS I SPEAK

Part One

I AM THE dark cloud that follows you in this life

I am the knife that stabbed its victim 46 times

I am the Indian blood that hates white men

I am that addicts’ needle that breaks off in his skin

I am that feeling of when you left and didn’t say goodbye

I am the words that she said that pushed him to suicide

I am that false sense of comfort that you shoot in your veins

I am that addiction… That comes with cocaine

I am the cancer that’s inside of my mother’s womb

I am the place that children hide from their abuse

I’m the rejection from the ones you loved, who did not love you

I am those who will always suffer, because they will never know the truth

I am that bottle of liquor that is killing my mother

I am the pain of having my children taken away

I am the fists that beat you into unconsciousness

I am the anger that can no longer be restrained

Hear these words I speak

All the rest are weak

Hear these words I speak

Cuz no one can save me…

THESE WORDS I SPEAK

Part Two

I AM THE words that were spoken

That would never come true…

I, the one, who couldn’t face myself

So I blamed it on you…

I am the way that she moaned

When she was cheating on you

I am the dark, the light, the balance… The truth

The sin, the contrition, the path to absolution

The angels and the jinn, those who still struggle with life’s illusions

I’m that reaction of when a man puts his hands on your mother

I’m that moment when we break bread, and then we turn on each other

I am that life changing moment when your seed is born

I am that stunning realization, when you feel that the meaning of your life is gone

The angel that I’ll never be…

The pain that twists inside of me

The demons in my minds

The screams trapped behind my eyes

The conviction of my stare

As places of light start to disappear

Hear these words I speak

All the rest are weak…

Hear me when I speak

No one can save me

Hear me when I speak

All the rest are weak…

Hear these words I speak

No one can save me…

THE PAINFUL PLACE

I ’VE PUNISHED MYSELF for all these years

Just so you’d know that I didn’t forget about you

What was all this pain for…

It didn’t help me

Not knowing, for all of those years

Has left me silent

But not unscathed

My mind still sees you as a