IF I LET YOU IN (is being set to music )

IF I LET YOU IN

If I let you in would I let you win?

If I opened my heart would you tear it apart?

If I let you into these concrete walls so tall

Where would we be at all?

If I let you in would we both win?

Should I let you in when you keep stumbling on the floor?

Should I let you in when you cannot stop knocking on the door?

Is it worth all the risk to let you in?

Should I let you in where I keep all my secrets safe?

Should I let you in in my deepest places?

Where I have kept myself safe

Are you playing it safe?

Or just a playing kind

Where I do mind with your mind games

That is why I won’t let you in with your fame

If I let you in would you make this house a home?

Or would you rather roam?

Is it worth it to be hurt like before?

Are you worth the risk to be let in?

And you keep saying

“I am not sure”

So why should I let you in?

Prove yourself to be let in!

Prove, prove

Because I shall move away from this door

Where you will be no more

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

12^th December 2014

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THE LONGEST WINTER SEASON

The Longest Winter Season

It has dragged its heals

The long drawn out meals

The dark, dark nights

Just a glimmer of lights

So many faces

Distant but near

Crying in anguish

I feel it too it was distant keeping its distance

The suffering, the pain, the agony I felt was in vain

Or was it in vain?

The dreams the visions

All now what seemed a dream?

Were real, cascading through this mind

The fir trees shedding their cones

The mistletoe the rose

Oh now I so want, need to curl in a ball

To be comforted, soothed from this troubled tormented sorrow

Shroud myself in an invisible veil

Away from this world, would this be to no avail?

But it helps to be shrouded with this veil

Brings a comfort, security, peace and wisdom too

Maybe not for you!

I am not a prisoner to it

I see clearly, clarity,

Lucidity, simplicity,

Transparency,

I need this veil adorned never embellished

My thoughts and feelings privately cherished

No intrusions, private, no secret

The world can wait

On this

The Longest Winter Season

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

10^th December 2015

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TIME

TIME

Time comes and goes

Time flies by

Time can drag its feet

When all we want or need is for it to fly by

Sitting constantly watch

Waiting

For the hands of time to move on

Faster

Quicker

Nearer to the time we want

Just like love

It takes time to know it

Recognize it

Feel it

Realize it

Understand it

Appreciate it

And be aware of it

The affection

The adoration

Tenderness

Devotion

Fire and the passion

Love comes in time

When it is ready

It is there waiting

To be held

Hugged

Embraced

Its sweet, sweet scent

Enticing

Alluring

Inviting

Appeal

Luring

Seducing

Persuading you to take that step in

TIME

Is the essence

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

9^th December 2015

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I'M NO ROCK CHICK

I’M NO ROCK CHICK

Just a simple person

Sitting quietly, unassumingly

Yet I am not alone 

The world surrounds me

The people, the animals

The sun, the moon

The stars way above

But yet you say that I am alone

Lonely, lost and confused

So here goes!

All my thoughts, words, feelings

Written in complete verse

Without the rhyming

And no timing

As this is going to take time

It’ll be like climbing a mountain

A sprouting fountain

Written honestly, truthfully

With total conviction

One step at a time

If I was to paint pretty pictures

That is so unreal

Yet so surreal

Would you still love me?

Would you still want to be with me?

Would you fill this empty heart?

A heart that has been torn apart

Can you, could you

Heal this heart

Fill the lonely, lost and confusion with

Peace and calmness

Would you, could you

Lay the past to rest and live our own truths

Live that once held dream

We both held so dear, so clear

I loathe this being sexy and single

We’re both floating in the air

I care, I care

Do you?

There is so much that has been left unsaid

Is it too late?

Is the picture perfect?

Yet it does not justify the agonizing agony

Under the bridges

There is no lost or found

Just an endless river flowing and flowing 

Downwards, downwards

Can you hear my truth?

Can you feel my truth?

Can you feel my reality?

Do you know my reality?

Can we find away today?

Can we feel the freedom to be?

You’ll never be alone

I’m here and there hopefully

Totally if you’ll only just let me!

Can we walk through that fire?

That fire of desire

Passions, sensual passions

Call me, call me

And I’ll come running

And I’ll be right there

I don’t want to say goodbye

I want to come by

I want, need you

And I know for certain you do too

For crying out loud pick that dam phone up

We cannot always live in hope

Dangling from each other’s ropes

My rock, rock, rocking guy

Come and complete your rock chick

And make it quick 

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

8^th December 2015

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HANGING ONTO YOUR LOVE?

HANGING ONTO YOUR LOVE?

Even though you have gone!

You’ve used and abused

You’ll never know the truth

Your own head in the lofty clouds

Doing your own thing

Wanting your own thing

Manier woman you have broken in two

You’ve played the seductive tune

Seduction personified

Your fingers playing, playing

Jazz, Jazz

Pizazz

Now it feels like a war in my heart

Did you think or believe

That I had a bullet proof soul?

My love was like no other

But it was a bother

A bother to you!

Sadness, sadness

You just took it all

And still the tears keep a running

Yet you did not appreciate this out of the ordinary

LOVE!

You wanted uncomplicated

You wanted a LOVER!

You wanted a friend

But I truly know it was not like that!

You were and are bloody scared!

You’ll never find that elusive love

Because she is right under your nose!

Nose, nose

Because she knows

She knows you!

You are too afraid to be alone

So you say!

Sweetness, sweetness

Make your mind up before it is too late

And that gate

Will be permanently shut

And no one will want to know you!

I have the memories

Memories that were and are still precious

But I cannot go backwards

Memories are not enough

I want more than that

I couldn’t have loved you more boy

But you didn’t

Yet I know you

Know you, know you

Loneliness is a killer

A killer of the heart and soul

A void, a void

You so avoid

Yet I’m hungry for life and love

That you cannot give

Or can you?

Or could you?

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

7^th December 2015

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BALANCING

BALANCING

Taken from the anthology ‘Warrior Women’

As of yet not published

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

Whilst walking these precariously unbalanced

Worlds of ours

A world that tosses, turns and churns

This way that way

Inside and outside

Shakes us agitates us too

The blend of sorrow and pain array

In the array of entitlements

Wants and needs

There stands a stance

For instance

Walking precariously with doubt fear

And tears

That the future is never clear

Clear cut without doubt

A shadow of a doubt

So we walk the walk

Without the talk

Until we see the hero, heroine

Within

The bravest of the bravest souls

Bravest of hearts

With our own beauty and grace

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

6^th December 2015

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