THE UNIVERSE

THE UNIVERSE

I’ve travelled across these lands

Never hand in hand with you!

I’ve sailed the seven seas

Never happily

And you were never there!

Rolled along the roller coaster

Dipped and dived

And survived

But you were never there!

You sure weren’t man enough!

You just swaggered your stuff!

Flounced off in a huff

I’ve been to the moon

Oh the blue, blue moon

With so much room

Room enough for two

But you were never there

You wanted the earth

I just wanted, needed you without the mirth

Not the huge wide girth

But you were just never there

Why cannot you see!

You just are not happy

But you just won’t let me be

But you were never really, really here

I’ve been to the stars

Carried in the famous cars

Driven in those famous cars

Chauffeured?

You opened doors for me

Yet you really were not there!

The wind blowing in these sails

Yet you dragged your heels like a snail

I looked back and you were gone

Gone, gone, gone

You were not really here or there

I didn’t want to change anything about you!

Just needed you here

But you changed all the way through

Distant, so distant

Just like the millions

Trillions

Of stars in the sky

Yet you never shone, shone so bright

A distant murky star

A shadowy figurine

Trying to figure which way to go best

Lest ……………..

I let you forget

Or never forget

That you were not here

In this Universe

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

5^th November 2014

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YOU SLEEP UNDER THE BLUE SKY

YOU SLEEP UNDER THE BLUE SKY

Here you are asleep under the starry sky

Hoping that all will pass you by

The sounds of the night

That has given you much fright

Your howling brethren

There in the distance

They’ve found a place

Where you cannot trace

Yours ears are pricked

Alert to all around

From dusk to dawn

And then you yawn

But will never sleep till dawn

Then you are really awake

Never taking a break

Your alertness alert

Afraid of the hurt

The hurt of mankind

And all of his kind

The savagery

With all their cavalry

Their cavalry of guns

That they seem to think are second to none

Oh what have we done?

You were here before us

Your land

Your land

Your land

Why can we not go hand in hand?

Across the vast wide lands

And live under the same sky?

Way up there so high

Not live this life so low

That it shows

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

3^rd November 2014

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Image courtesy of

Rev’d Cleminson