Life is a risk.
To try, is to risk failure.
To reach out, is to risk involvement.
To love, is to risk not being loved in return.
To be honest, is to risk showing your true self.
To be an individual, is to risk standing out.
To learn, is to risk wisdom!
The greatest risk, is to risk nothing;
For a person with nothing to lose, has nothing to gain!! …
Ellie
She said,
“It was only a dream!”
Oh, if they were!
Weapons spat.
Bullets were splat!
Blood splattered, bone shattered.
From this dream, there is no waking.
Roaring birds expel Hell’s fire!!
… Below Dante’s inferno!
I remember one,
Who was too dear;
And limbs like blackened twigs.
Images of Hell,
Image of beheading;
Burned into my brain!
I hear the roar,
I see the flames!
From this dream, I cannot wake!
Many years have come and gone;
And still this dream lives on!! …
Ellie
Hovering over hurried hands!
Working at a hectic pace.
Moving with such swift motions,
As if it were a race.
Trying to maintain,
What is thought to be lost.
Trying in vain,
Not to get beat by the frost.
An opponent with the edge,
Before the race begins.
An opponent with few defects,
Because it almost always wins,
The human hands below,
Give up the frantic fight;
And suddenly I find myself,
Floating in tunnel of light.
At the end of tunnel,
I see a field of green.
Surely a more splendid sight,
My eyes have never seen.
Ellie
Who’s web caught!
All the promises made,
In passion and,
In prowess,
Hung over my bed!
Here your,
“I love you’s!”
Glistened like dew,
In the morning sun;
And the captive:
“Forever’s”, like prisms-
spread rainbows,
Through my brain…
It should have caught.
Every hope you arose in me,
Should have been wrapped by the-
pebble spider and drained until only-
the shell of fantasy remained!! …
Ellie
Will it die as those before?
A heart set free!
How can it soar?
Without the burning, EMBERS ROAR…
Hid behind SOs not to test
A curtain black;
A soul upon my heart does rest…
Fleeting visions of the past!
Dancing slowly;
Trying to grasp;
The vastness of the curtain black!
Gone to sea without the test-
of true loves touch,
Of those things said!
Forlorn… raging tides slowly ebb!! …
Ellie
Her inadvertent stare gave to her
unknowing;
Briefly her eyes blinked as she stayed
fixed on the ocean!
Her heart did flip and churned and
softly began to sing!
The foamy blues and translucent
greens seemed forever wrapped in
deep devotion!
The crashing waves engulfed her in a
cave of intricate sound.
The grains of sand joyfully reunited
with its watery BROTHER!
Heavily stirred the abrupt wind as
it stayed homebound…
They all joined together to be part
of their MOTHER!! …
Ellie
Gone with the shark to the ocean floor!
Eaten polar bear, goat and boar!
All this I’ve done… and more!
Walked with a vampire In the morning glow!
Planted my seeds in a running doe!
This too I’ve done… and more!
Escaped a burning house with just my life!
Spent many nights when I was rife.
I’ve done all these… and more!
Followed where the gargoyles led!
Held a man under water till he was dead.
Yes,… I’ve done it all… inside my head!! …
Ellie
There, in the morning’s hue,
Crystal drops of dawn dew.
Gracefully they lay on emerald grass,
Teardrops that have fallen from a lass.
Their spectrum of colors shine bright and true.
Sight such as this are far between and few.
A passionate touch of the freshly cut blades,
Left by Mother Nature with her golden braids!
A signature of morning,
Left there, simply adoring!
As sometimes unnoticed, rarely appreciated glimpse of paradise;
A reminder of the simplistic real fulness of nature-
before winter’s ice.
As the sun smiles down on those liquid diamonds from above,
Imagine God up high showering us with all His precious love!! …
Ellie
They keep pressing onto me. Pressure, pressure!
Their presence demanding, I shove them away;
Though with time never around and energy never ample!
Pushing them to the back of my mind seems a trick;
And everything seems to get worse and worse!
They keep asking whether they’re-
correct? Or wrong? Or connect?
Their answer lingers on my mind! Did I do what was right?
Oh, I feel I lack the strength to face those decisions of mine…
That doesn’t help me to know what was right anymore…
They are just like me about life and love!
Questions some more and then another!
They all have their problems, their insecurities, their losses!
And I have helped them to find their answers too.
But now it is my turn, and my friends are also there for me!
There to cry, to share, and most of all, to hug when I need it the most!! …
Ellie
There’s a deep breath I take when I wonder on your love, when-
I wander through your heart.
There’s a shiver that ripples through me before I-
climax, when I, deep within you, realize the joy of loving you…
There’s a glimmer in me that you doubt I’ll be-
here when you call, when you ask, when you want. A fear-
that you know me well, as well as yourself. It’s just a-
glimmer, though, for…
I worship at a temple I’ve found where your lips invite me in!
Your eyes warm me and your arms encircle me with a comfort-
I’ve not known before…
I worship with a fervor borne of flames that came from-
lust, moved through love, paused in obsession and now-
resides when two have merged…
… And I offer my pilgrim soul, simply and with but-
one request: “Receive my love!” !! …
Ellie
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