WHICHEVER PATH YOU CHOOSE

WHICHEVER PATH YOU CHOOSE

Win or lose

The choices are in abundance

There is a path that is happy, sad and glad

But hey the sun is shining, there is no whining

Its rays spreading outwards and inwards

Which path to choose

Left

 Right

Or

  Center

There are chances to take and make

These are roads less travelled

There are tracks on the paths

Where travelers have ridden and trodden

But which is the true path that leads to which way you want to go?

That is surely up to you!

Questions and more questions

Deliberating, reflecting, considering, pondering

But the more we stand and look down those paths

Surely we are missing the point?

Surely we are missing an opportunity?

Is the grass greener on the other side?

No, no it’s fake

Fake as hell!

They can keep their hell

Their falsehoods

Hoodwinks

Lies, I so despise

Their poking their noses in

Finding your deepest darkest of secrets

Failures, failures

Fissures

Cracks, crevices

And a fractured mind

Whoa!

Yes they’ll find it all out

Whether or not you have dug it so deep

They’ll find it all out and use it against you

Believe me

I’ve experienced it fully!

Their Narcissism just to get a story

Their lying, cheating ways

Then you see it all in

Blacks and white

Making you to be the bad person that you are not

“Frantic, irrational, neurotic and emotional”

(F.I.N.E)

As they put it in Counseling terms

Oh and not forgetting their heaps of jealousy

They don’t like others from Social Housing to be successful

I’m proud of my roots

It’s where I came from

Standing tall and proud of my achievements

It’s all about them, them and more them

Just to line their wallets and pockets

They are devious!

They’ll find a way into your own home

Illegally!

Trust me, believe me

They’ll do anything

They’ll stop at nothing

 

I’ve tasted that life and it’s not for me

The whistles and bells

That ring in success

Success is a mere fantasy

It’s been all about the extreme slogging away

Plodding away

Slamming away

To me there is no reality

Pomp and ceremonies

Glitz and glam

A sham!

The bright lights of success do not entice me

The walking that damn red carpet

The blinding camera lights

The pose here and there

Do they care?

Nope just a momentary headline

Hitting the news and magazines

Nope not for me at all!

Are those golden rays a pot of gold unsoiled, unspoilt?

We can never tell unless we travel those paths

© Teresa Helen Joseph-Nelson

Friday 10^th December 2021

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YOU ARE

 

YOU ARE

You are the whisper on the wind

The love that never ends

You are my bright shining star

YOU ARE

The soft and gentle caress

You are the love and tenderness

I feel your warmth and the fire

It’s only you that I desire

YOU ARE

My strength just like the bear

Protecting through the night and day

Blowing all worries and nightmares away

I can never imagine a day away from you in anyway

You are my love laid bare

YOU ARE

My wolf, one look in your eyes

Speaks nothing of truth and nor lies

Your loyalty holds no bounds

Courageous, strong and loyal

My hero and best friend

YOU ARE

My future in all that I see

Way beyond the lands and the seas

I see a child is that you or me?

Or could that be the child in our dreams

That is meant for you and me?

YOU ARE

My whole

My soul

A legend

That will never end

© Teresa Helen Joseph-Nelson

22^nd July 2014

Image by Jose’ Dasilva

I WASN'T SUPPOSED TO FALL FOR YOU! (WINNER OF THE GOLDEN PEN AWARD)

 

I WASN’T SUPPOSED TO FALL FOR YOU!

But it’s just how I feel for you

You’re always on my mind

And here you are so kind, kind

I’m so, so lucky

Oh the angels knew

That it was you

And here I look!

And feel as if I am heaven

Oh boy I wasn’t meant to fall for you

My soul singing

My heart ringing 

Oh what a great feeling

You’ve touched this woman

Like no other man has done

Oh boy I want to sing and dance

Oh boy I want to spend my life with you!

Oh boy you make me feel so fortunate

Blessed, blessed

And you are here

And I am here

Oh boy I wasn’t meant to fall for you!

My heart is rocking and rolling

My head ringing and singing 

Oh boy now you are my destiny

Oh my love, love 

From the heavens above

I never want this feeling to end!

Oh, oh whoa

When you touch me

You send shivers down my spine

Oh boy this is all mine!

Oh boy this is so, so real

Surreal, unreal

I don’t want to hide

Let all this reside

Oh boy I wasn’t meant to fall for you!

Now I am in a trance

With just one glance

From you, you

And now please don’t let me go

Oh boy now I am in your paradise

You are the light in the darkness

Where there was once so much starkness

You have me enraptured, captured

Mesmerized

I cannot keep my eyes off you

And always in my thoughts

I shouldn’t have fallen for you!

Boy you have become irresistible

Your eyes alluring

Seductively tantalizing

 You have this wondrous hold over me

A hold that I never want to be free

Free, free

Oh how I miss you when you are gone

Gone, gone

Oh boy this is love, love

And one that I won’t want to let go of

Miss you nights, nights

Cannot wait for those special nights

Enwrapped, enwrapped in your arms

Body to body

Lips to lips 

Our bodies heating in pure ecstasy

Out of control!

Oh boy I wasn’t meant to fall for you!

Oh such sweet, sweet memories

I’m forever yours

When I close my eyes you are there

This is not fantasy

This is reality

And now I am missing you

Through and through

Missing your sweet, sweet words

Missing your sweet, sweet smile

Oh boy now I have fallen for you

So deep, deeply

Sweetly, sweetly

Completely, completely

And hoping this will never end

End, end

© Teresa Helen Joseph-Nelson

11^th April 2016

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Awarded the Golden Pen Award

UPON THIS LAND

 

UPON THIS LAND

This ancient, ancient land

Where nothing breathed

But the animals

And the trees

We came to this land

Just to

Live amongst

The wild

And the free

Not to tame it

Claim it or reclaim it

This belongs

To our

Mother Earth

Our Creators land

Ploughed the earth

Sowed the seeds

In this earth

Crops that we did reap

Always plenty for others

To sow

And reap

Not for weeping

As I look beyond this

Ancient, ancient land

Visions of the

Darkness

And light

Knowing that this

Ancient, ancient

Land

Is no longer the

New World

As man once called

It

There is no space to breath

Feel

Escape

The madness of the

Great Cities

Freedom to run

As wild as a steed

Letting the wind

Blow free

Through

Mind

Body

And spirit

© Teresa Helen Joseph-Nelson

9^th May 2012

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I CANNOT GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD!

 

I CANNOT GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD!

I’ve tried so hard to wash you away

Yet here you are still in my head and heart

It’s still tearing me apart

I just want to sleep

Sleep, sleep

Sleep the sleep without you

It feels like you are still here

So very near

So very close

I need to know the reason

The reasons for your leaving 

You’ve left me grieving, grieving

With your leaving

My inner smile has gone

My outer smile has gone

The world is so, so cruel

So cruel, so cruel

You were this world of mine

All the time

Every day, every night

You made me feel special

Special, special

Your kisses drove me wild

Your caresses drove me wild

You touched my inner soul

My inner soul

Now I cannot get you out of my head

Now I feel dead!

Dead, dead

Lifeless, lifeless

Drowning, drowning with grief

We were not just lovers

We were best friends

I cannot face this world alone

Alone, alone

Now it seems that I was in the wrong 

How? How?

When? When?

And now it seems that you never cared

All that you were bothered with was what you wanted to hear!

Now the summer sun has gone

The dream has disappeared

You took my heart

Tore it right apart

The summer sun now burns my skin

The water no longer cleansing my skin

You took my heart without considering

Oh, oh what a fool

Fool to let it happen

I’ll get over you

I’ll get over you

Let the snow fall

Let this mind freeze

Let this mind go free

Let the skies fall

Let the snows fall

Let the skies continually be grey

And this heart goes away

I’ll always remember you

I’ll know exactly what you’ll say

Leave, leave

All the pain where there is nothing to gain

You say my tears will dry

Then you walk on by

With no good bye

I thought we had the good life!

A good thing, a good thing

Our own sweetest of things

Oh I cannot get you out of my head

Will you ever know what you have done to me?

You made me so, so happy

Now there is only darkness

A stark, stark darkness

Listen, listen to this heart

That has been broken right apart

Will this heart find its rightful home?

I’m going, going to surely try

I know that I’m going to miss your embraces

Yet surely know that you’ll never come back to me

Oh boy I cannot get you out of my head

All our yesterdays

Gone, gone

It another time and space

Gone, gone

But never forgotten

© Teresa Helen Joseph Nelson

13^th February 2021

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