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294 · Sep 2014
Move Me
Liz Devine Sep 2014
Move me,
make me scream and cry
laugh and squeal
with delight and with pain

lift me,
until I reach the gentle sky
and I can play with the moon
with the face that looks like yours

hold me,
inside of your heart
keep me warm there
until I'm done, and safe
until I'm strong enought to stand

Keep me,
forever and ever
right here in your arms
moving, swaying
loving and praying
building me up
making me whole

I could do this forever
letting you move me
in the ways that you like
building, lifting, pushing
until I'm right there
standing atop your shoulders
beneath the yellow sun
292 · Jul 2017
Six Years
Liz Devine Jul 2017
I guess I shouldn't be surprised
shouldn't feel jolted,
or be standing here still - with shaking hands
It's been six years;
I knew somewhere deep,
down inside of myself
that this was coming

Does she know me?
Does she know anything at all?
I'm sure she doesn't - why would she?
You don't know me either;
never got the chance
you can't know someone - who pretends to be someone else
someone who lives in a world that they made up
inside of their own head
the kind of girl,
who believes her own lies

I remember how you left me
Do you?
Challenging my spirit
my experience
my very existence -
because you knew god better
than the girl who lived so close to death

Does your new bride know;
how you turned your back,
and left me behind
to clean up the mess you made?
to bury the dead alone
repressed so deep -
that it took years to dig up

No,
I'm sure she doesn't know at all.

— The End —