WE DO NOT WANT TO LEAVE THIS PLACE (New Poem)

WE DO NOT WANT TO LEAVE THIS PLACE

All that concrete and clay everyday

Now there is no place here

For all that hustle and bustle

We do not want to leave this place

Life is at a slower pace

But we both know we need to go back

Where we do not lack

Penthouse apartment

Set in a compartment 

Cold, cold

Tell me what is wrong with us

Where did it all go wrong?

That concrete and clay

Every day, every day

Tell me what is wrong with me?

Tell me what is on your mind?

We never talk, talk

We just sit and stare

Stare and stare at each other

The concrete and clay beneath our feet

The trudging to and froing from work

Too tired to do a thing

The doorbell rings

Wondering who is going to get the door

We look on the floor

The cat and dog fast asleep

Unaware without a care

What has happened? My childhood sweetheart?

We just do not want to leave this place!

We left that fast, fast pace

To this quiet heavenly place

Just the noise of the sea ebbing and flowing

The seagulls overhead

The silence, the silence

This silence is deafening

We cannot just stare

We cannot just glare

What has happened to all our hopes and dreams?

Have we a hope?

Have we the will?

The will to start afresh, anew

Without staying here!

I need to know your answers

Before the day passes

I cannot go on, and on

Just pretending, being unhappy

I need, want to go home, our home

The one we built together

Our forever

Please stop staring into the distance

The answers are not all there

They are here right here in front of you

Beside you

Leaning into you

Where I want to stay forever

I love you, adore you

There is no mistaking my feelings

We do not want to leave this place

But we must tomorrow

Our time is up in the wonderful place

© Teresa Helen Joseph-Nelson

17^th February 2018

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I’m Scared of Being Alone

I am scared of being alone,

I know I have the TV, I know I have the phone,

It’s you I want, not email, not text

I want you and you alone

I’m scared of losing you,

Scared we won’t work out

We‘ve failed before

Filled with each others doubt

The time is right

The time is now

Let’s grasp it while we can

We both deserve some happiness

And a decent tan!

A holiday, some time for us

Leave the rest behind

They’ll still be there

When we are back

And hopefully they’ll find

Two people much in love

Like hero’s coming home

The Past, as memories

And neither of us, alone

© David Hann

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On the first 5 verses

So now all that is left

Fills me with bereft

I slam the piano keys

Dear God I’m on my knees

I pray, pray and pray

That I’ll never be another’s prey

Your silly tunes

Upon those keys

Had me singing in tune

The ebony and ivory

Oh you so hated, loathed the rivalry

A rivalry so raw

So new

You knew!

You blew

Yet you would not bow out

Instead you shouted out

“You are mine!”

“My divine”

“My melody”

“You are my everything!”

“The clothes you wear”

“Your hair”

“It’s all mine!”

You hollered

Like you had me collared

Strapped in a strapless bodice

“Why did you not notice?”

The unhappiness that resided

Yet you never minded!

The silent tears

The silent fears

And now it is time to go it alone

Facing the unknown

Bringing myself back to my home

My home that I knew and loved

Be what I want to be

See all there is to see

See who I want to see

And maybe, just maybe

The real you is out there for me

© Teresa Helen Joseph-Nelson

1^st November 2014

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ALL IS CALM

ALL IS CALM

As I sit here quietly calmly

The sun all aglow

There is peacefulness, stillness

That I am thinking about

That resided here long ago

It was filled with love and hope

A love that I so dreamily hoped for

But that was long ago

Today is filled with hope once more

A chance to wish

A chance to live

A chance to be happy

To dream the dreams

Where it will seem so real

Real, real, real!

Is it right to feel?

Is it right to want that feeling?

When all I really wish and hope for

Is someone to love me!

With all their heart and soul

As this heart is ready to love you

Adore you

Cherish you

Be your best friend

Be your lover

Be your heart and soul

Oh boy do you dream the same things?

If so come and find me

I will search high and low

For this elusive love

As I am sure that you are also

One day, one day

One day, one day maybe

That is not that far away

We’ll make sweet music

Together, together

Hoping, hoping forever

If we were together

Eternally, eternally

You’d be my passion

A passion so strong, strong

I’d never get enough of you!

When we swoon, swoon into unconsciousness

Oh such bliss, bliss

The silent, silent silence

Where we never need the words

Oh I’d never get enough of you

You’d teach me the real meaning of love

I’d teach you to

We’d never get enough of each other

Mentally

Internally

Emotionally

Psychologically

Mystically

Physically

Oh these wonderful feelings

That is so wished and hoped for

© Teresa Helen Joseph-Nelson

9^th October 2016

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