Something Closer to my heart

It has been over a year since I have posted anything to this blog for many reasons. Each time I sat down to put anything on here it was usually negative and depressing and or sad and I didn't want the tone of my blog to be that way so it was just blank. But I am going to turn over a new leaf and try something out of my comfort zone. As most of my family know, I write poetry to express my emotions and cope with my feelings and I guess I just like to as well. I will admit I have not the range of skills my sister Denise posseses, but I am going to post a poem I wrote the other night while I was up and couldn't sleep (aka the story of my life). Here goes:





Green Eyes


A girl with wavy curls


of black hair down her back


and emerald green eyes


boring deep into my soul-


haunts me


each night


I am sleepwalking I say


please wake me up


from this unending


task of determening


reality


and a fantasy world.


She has creamy white skin


and a splash of freckles over her nose.




I can't help but wonder if she is from


my past--some relative I have met


in a time before-


or is she someone I will meet


in the future-


someone who is part me


part him.




Is this just silly thoughts that come


to me late at night to comfort me


when I am oh so lonely_


whomever she is-


for now, she is mine.




She turns and looks at me


just as the sun is rising at her back-


-and she smiles


And in that smile I see


Love






-Dawn Cooper Volkman