Susie Clevenger

“If you wish to know me,just ask.”

“But the walls of my resolvemortared with stubbornnesshave been breached by circumstancesI cannot handle alone.”

“Let me live my final days whole.Let my memory remain that I might know love's face.Life don't unwrap me to be fed to scavengers.I want to escape into light - not exist in darkness.”

“Life is a poemjust waiting to be written,lift your pen and speak.”

“I seek to be moved, my imagination reborn.Let me feast on poems that feed my hunger.”

“If there is passion, let me feel its heat.I want my heart to beat fast,my breath raspy, my skin to burn.”

“I now know how your angercame from skeletonsthat rattled in your heartand you couldn't escape them.”

“I didn't know the demonsthat walked across your memory.They came from the dustwhen you were at peacein your grave.”

“Foggy nights bring some comfort.He can get lost in the mistand there is no one to stare or question.”

“Life goes on in the same manner,evil wins and peace is slaughtered.Change the channel, change the view,tired of the same reruns on the evening news.”

“I am lost in my world,invisible - unknown.Moon please lend meyour light that someonewill me see me.”

“How do I learn to speakwhen silence is all I know?”

“There is only one you. Stop trying to devalue yourself by trying to be a copy of someone else.”

“A dream doesn't die because it has no truth. It dies because you fail to nurture it.”

“I am a butterfly poetbirthed from painflying with the freedomof my verses.”