Exposure

My body quivers
Closing my eyes in fear
Exposed and blistered
The naked truth
Stretched out
For everyone ro see,
What has become of me.

The Preditor

Looking for the right victim
Someone timid, vulnerable
With the softest whimper
He watches, follows
Stalks, then pounces
And bounces
Tears out her insides
And when he's through
His need to hurt and
Destroy satisfied
He  leaves the ragged, naked
Ended life.

Forever Things

Baby books to
Year books,
Blue ribbons and
Valentines, birthday cards
And a Mother's Day 
Bouquet
Posted on a card by me.

From town to town
State to state
Desert scalds and icebergs bite
Draughts, floods,
Tornados and quakes.
In the end 
It's all there
The pieces of a life we've saved
For someone to cherish
In a future day.

Be With Me

Between crisp clean sheets
Her head made a hole
in the pillow as she lay
Nearing the time
she would pass away.
I kissed her dried,
cracked lips
My mother tried to say
Remember me and
 be with me another day,
Another place.
Always together
in memories and
living forever.