HIDDEN FROM VIEW

HIDDEN FROM VIEW

With a wonderful view

It’s shaded, shaded with colours

Grey, as the day is long

Fanning, blowing and cooling

Whispering softly within the wind

Yet so desperately I try to hide

Hide from your words

Words that hurt so much

Was I the only one in love with you?

Were you ever in love with me?

Am I to walk this lonely, lonely road?

This lonely, lonely existence

An existence that’ll be empty without you

I need to run away

I need to go away

I need to get away

I need to find myself

All I want is for it to pour, pour with rain

Not this sunny, sunny day

All I ever wanted was for you to feel my love

But you pushed it aside

Pushed, pushed

It all away

Now I face this highway

A long, long highway

Alone, sadly alone

Maybe I pinned my hope too high

Too high for you

Was I not good enough?

Or was it that you were not good enough?

My head is spinning, spinning

The clouds swirling, swirling

Twisting and turning

Am I lonely?

Oh boy yes I am

The nights are too long

The lights are on since you’ve been gone

But yet you hurt me with your words

But little do you know!

I know, I know

You

You

It’s you that is so, so lonely

You’re too afraid

Scared, scared

It’s you that is not sleeping

You’re the one tossing and turning

Stomach churning

Burning

Someday you’ll realize that you were all I needed

Someday you’ll realize that I was all that you needed

Babe I hope that you are reading this!

The full chapter and verse

And here is what I am going to say

People like us should never be in love

People like us should never be alone 

People like us need to find that one love

Oh babe oh babe

Do they know?

Do you know?

Like I know

That we both need a miracle

The miracle is the love we need

Oh babe, oh babe

No one loves you like I do!

Oh babe, oh babe

This anger is burning us both

Where did I go wrong?

Call me, call me

Tell me, tell me

The day you walked out

I’m living a lie

A total lie, a total lie 

I keep telling myself there is no one else

I keep telling my heart it has to be so

But I know, know it is not so 

My heart is screaming

My heart is streaming

My heart has stopped dreaming

My heart has stopped feeling 

So why am I still dreaming of you?

So why do I want to feel you?

Enwrapped in your arms

Where I came to no harm

Oh babe, oh babe

It is so, so hard to say goodbye

And let you go, go

Never, ever be with you again

So for now I’ll stay

‘Hidden from view’

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

4^th February 2016

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CHIPMUNKS ( LEAP YEAR POEM) 29th February

CHIPMUNKS

A spring day today

Love is in the air

New growth

And undergrowth emerging

Love is in the air

Right now …..

Spring has sprung

For the lovers too

These two know

That they love each other too

But he is not sure whether to ask or not

To tie the knot

Well this being the year of

A leap year

(Bear with me now

 I know that they don’t know that,

But let’s have a good story)

He he

Now Chippy (the male)

Is shy and reserved

But he adores

His Chitty (the female)

He worships the ground

That Chitty walks on

And the trees

That she walks on

And up

And down

He would do anything for her

Nothing a bother

Always a pleasure

Nothing a pain

But he just cannot find the words to say

His words come out all garbled

And not understood

He blushes with shame

And blames himself for his

Silly, stupid ways

‘What am I to do?’

He keeps asking himself

And runs off into the wood

Chitty sees and feels

His pain and concern

And hears all the garbled words

And knows what Chippy wants to

Ask,

Chitty hatches a plan

For the next day

Knowing that Chitty is around all day

The day being

February 29th the only day

That is a leap year

When the ladies are able to propose

The their men

So Chitty is ready

And waiting for Chippy

To arrive

And surprise him the most

He standing before me

Looking all forlorn

And worried

I pluck up the courage

And just say it out loud

‘Chippy please marry me?’

Chippy is looking stunned

And now I am worried what he is going to say

And all of a sudden he stammers

‘I willllllll marrrrrrrrrrry you

Chitty just say when’

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

18^th Mary 2012

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LAYING BARE

LAYING BARE

Life is a course of hiding

Disguising ourselves behind painted faces

Masking the truth

Veiling our face with hoodies

Hiding, hiding

Camouflaging

Concealing

Hiding away

Obscuring

Their faces

How do we know what you are like under all that covering?

Are you a complicated being?

Unsure of yourself

Complicated

Complex

Difficulty in revealing the real self

In this life of obscuring ourselves

Is there any element that needs revealing?

Our true selves

Possibly

How much would you reveal?

And lay bare?

Would you dare to?

Would life be more challenging without the veils?

Nothing ventured, nothing gained

Venture into the unknown self

Gain a life of purity and love

Challenging

Those masks

Defying those masks

Revealing the true and real person

Baring all

Facing all

Defying all

Are you brave enough?

To bare the real you

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

27^th June 2012

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CASCADING

CASCADING

Cascading years and fears

Downwards flows

Washing away the fears and tears

Washing away the wasted years

The rocking, rocking rocks

That has toppled, collapsed, tumbled

Your world

Tattered, battered, shattered

As you have slid and slided

Way down in the depths

Of despair

But down there in the despair

There is a light a shining

Shining so bright, maybe just a glimmer to you and I

But it is there within the tumbled weeds

The moss the stones, the grit and grime

That has gathered over time

Yet you look, seek and never find it!

Why look to me for it?

If you take that long, long look within

You’ll find it!

Your despair, your life with no care

I’ve done all I possibly can

It’s time to say goodbye

It’s time that you left me alone

It’s time that you not keep visiting me

It’s time that you find your own path

A path of enlightenment

A path that will lead you to a better environment

Look to the great outdoors

It’s there, it’s there

Look within yourself

It’s there, it’s there

Don’t glare

Don’t stare

Like you do not care

Like you do not want to

Like you want to live in a world of despair

I don’t want or need to be part of that pair

My life is elsewhere

You know this

You know that

I cannot be part of your tit for tat

I won’t let it

I won’t let it

I cannot let it

I’m not in despair

Please talk with your partner!

You know the current one

The one you love?

The one who is in your circle

The one who is not in mine!

Remember and never forget

We don’t have anything in common any longer

We’ve spent it all if you can remember

The dancing, the chit chatting

The heads together

The whispering so no one hears us

That has all stopped

I’ve stopped it

You now need to know the boundaries

And never to cross them

Respect

Respect

Is all I expect!

Nothing less, nothing more

So please, please leave me alone

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

2^nd February 2016

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RENEWING - RE-BIRTHING - BREATH WORK

RENEWING

REBIRTHING-BREATHWORK

Healing these shutdown feelings

The anger the pain

The fear, the sadness

Held deep within

Emotions so jumbled, mumbled, muffled

Screaming and shouting silently within

BREATHING IN

BREATHING OUT

Letting this breath out

The freshness

Filling this body

The greenness of regeneration

The lightness of the touch

Billowing

Rising

Curling

Flowing

Falling

Wafting the leafy green leaves all around

Fluttering

Flapping

Shimmering in the lanterns light

The feeling of grounding

Rooted to the spot

Oh this feeling is so good

So good

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

11^th December 2012

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GREEN EYED MONSTER (another part of my life story in verse/prose)

THE GREEN EYED MONSTER

Why be so green with envy?

What is it that makes you so envious?

I am living the dream, the dream held for many years

You do not want it to happen, but it is too late to stop

You can give me hell and the devil as much as you want

But the green eyed monster within you will send you to the same place

He loves the envious, those that hold the envy

Those that have destroyed their own souls

Their own happiness, their own joy

He loves those that have lived without love

Without a passion, a life without a soul

He is in his bliss and joy

His fire is burning he is stoking the fires for the Green Eyed Monsters

Of this world and life

He is rubbing his hands together

He is cheering, he is taunting you

He so loves you now!

The devil has his door open waiting for you!

The fire is stoked, hissing, crackling

His visions of a mocking, scornful, sarcastic person

Morbidly envious of family and friends

The cutting the cut throat remarks

Oh boy is he loving you all!

And boy oh boy aren’t you dressed like the devil’s partner in crime!

He loves you; you are just like him all the way

So what are you going to do?

Destroy yourself or change the ways of

The Green Eyed Monster

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

5^th March 2013

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