June 2012
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Fortress by Saurell Boyers Posted by Poetry Potion on Wednesday, June 20, 2012 Under: June 2012
As I child I would not sleep
Till I was able to complete
The painstaking nightly task
Building a fortress around my bed
Teddy bears and dolls stand guard
Against monsters and trolls
Now I’m grown but cannot let go
Of this propensity for building walls
Secure , invisible , impenetrable
Around my heart and soul
To protect from the all too real pain
Of heartbreaks and disappointment
At times I long to let down the barricade
But fear and past experiences prevail
So I patch my fortress walls to safely hide
Yet all the while longing, trying
For something , anything
That can only be reached by breaking them
© Saurell Boyers
Heartbeat by Saurell Boyers
Posted by Poetry Potion on Wednesday, June 20, 2012 In : June 2012
She said to me
I cannot teach you to be free
But this is freedom to me
Feel your heartbeat
A rhythm all its own
Setting a tone
The desire to be free
Is like that heartbeat
In every soul and mind
Some follow their heart
Others are left behind
Yet freedom has a price
Etched in courage, sweat,blood
To deliver responsibility
So tell me
Do you want to be free?
© Saurell Boyers
“At times when you get tired of waiting & an underdog behaves like an alpha dog. Then perhaps its an opportunity to reassign the underdog”
—…me
“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
— Zora Neale Hurston (Their Eyes Are Watching God)
“And when you’re crying out. When you fall and then can’t pick, you’re heavy on the ground. When the friends you thought you had haven’t stuck around. That’s when you feel my kind of love.”
—Emeli SANDE (via sartorialgirl)
