Giving Tree

 

written by: Janette Marie

What I wouldn't give for just one moment to live

sitting on the branches of you the giving tree

to feel the gift of your branches

to see the view only you can give

you the giving tree.

Will your view inspire my hands

to write the words given

will your branches sustain the energy

to move my pen across my paper

to lay upon its lineless existence

the words given to rhyme with my soul.

Feel

Emotion inside so strong it silences the words to express it

Picture in the mind so vivid it breaks the heart to dream it

Need to touch with the hands that feel her love slip away

Tears from her eyes fill the loss from her heart

The Wish

written by: Janette Marie

A love to call your own
a hand to hold with yours alone
a kindred soul to bond with yours
to fill your heart with joy

A glance across a crowded room
a smile to light the dark
a friend to have to call your own
whose heart belongs to you alone

Hopes and dreams to fill a jar
that light up like captured fireflies
together to contemplate their beauty
and release to see them fly

May all the hopes and dreams you have
resting quiet in your captive heart
find their way outside the jar
to light the dark for you and I

I am... allowed to Be

written by:  Janette Marie

when in this world
will I be heard
when will I matter
enough to not be flattened
my words are important
and they have power
is that the reason
they are always overpowered
I matter
when will you hear
will you ever care
enough to let me share
all that is inside
when will you care
to allow me to be
to say, to feel to be alive
why am I always squashed
what is it about me that
brings me to be overpowered
in thoughts, opinions, words, air
let me breathe
let me exist
acknowledge that I exist
I am allowed
TO BE