Randomness (December 8, 2018)

Random letters form

Not sure

Where they'll lead

Or take me.

Except

Calling my soul

Pulling tugging forwards.

Journey of self-discovery

And exploration

What it means

To be me.

Regardless

Feeling towards myself

Or others.

Confronting monsters

Who hide behind

Sweetest of lies

Entrapping innocence.

Speaking words

Best ignored.

Others watch

Interested glee

Craving failure.

Bastards.

Surrender

Signing death warrant.

Something

Not prepared to do

Just yet.

Maybe tomorrow

Or day after.

Not today.

Therisa © 2018

Author's note: A 22 minute conscious (or unconscious) writing exercise, as I waited for the frozen vegetarian lasagna to cook.

Random Thoughts (November 28, 2011)

Sigh.

Silence

Calm before

The storm.

Time

Becomes

A measureless

Construct.

Pleasure

Brief interruption

In a meaningless

World.

Sleep

Oblivion

From reality.

Food

Method of delivery

For legal toxins

Into the body.

Death

Another gateway

For life.

Therisa © 2011

Author's note: Another blast from my poetic morgue.

A Need (March 2, 2017)

Why do we fear

Change?

When

It's a natural part

Of life

Around us.

Like the ugliest caterpillar

Who metamorphosis

In the prettiest butterfly.

Spreading beauty

With each flap

Of its wings.

Not like

I'm asking you

To transform

Into something

That you are not.

Rather

Share the journey

Moving forward

As one.

Growing

And loving

The true me

That emerges

From this cocoon.

Therisa © 2017

Author's note: Not sure, why I wrote this poem but felt the need, to do so. Hence, the title, for the poem.