HEAVILY VEILED

Life love hope dreams
Friends lovers passion
streams like a steam liner
bulldozing through me

The waves that seem to
come all so frequently
crashing into my life
my thoughts my soul

Never giving a chance
to swim above it always
floating just on the top
enough to breath in rushed
fast paced sprints

Dieing day by day
hour by hour
minute by minute
take me out of this race

Sun filled days run into
pitch black nights
never feeling the difference
in this cloud filled haze

The darkness comforts me
hides the flaws my face
my pain encased like a
cocoon of wrath made
just for me

I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER

No longer climbing but scaling
these walls nails replaced by
claws leaving imprints in the cement
of this concrete jungle

Dream big they say find you way
they say.... " You Dream Big" !!!
I'm tired of the lies shrouded
in conceptions of long ago truths

Heavy... too Heavy
This veil is too thick
and my eyes are tired

By Debbie Mills Kelly

~~ Sounds To Sleep By ~~

Sounds To Sleep By

The sirens pierce through me like a sharpened dagger

something is smoldering in this small corner of my city

the neighborhood is dowsed in dark and treacherous acts

I sit on my bed wondering which direction their coming from

should I duck from the window, will this be the night that a

stray bullet rips through my flesh like a hungry angry violent

virus.

The same virus that has claimed so many lives young and old

too many to count to this date, WHAT IS THIS SHIT!!!

I thought I was immune to the sounds. I hear them all the time

While I watch TV, when I eat , as I write, in my sleep……..

For some reason tonight is different tonight I feel it too

damned deep…. through my thick skin as it penetrates

my soul seeping through my lungs,stiffling the fears I

can no longer express unable to scream.. STOP !!!

Tonight I feel it just too damned deep .

By : Deborah Mills Kelly ( Debbie Philly)