Leaders

.

leaders are needed

to lead from the front

doing their best for all mankind

but money is power

and power is god

calling the shots

and telling what’s what

promoting relations

and friends to the top

crony-ism thrives

there’s (dis)honour among thieves

elections are due

to be held next year

and will changes occur

in the voting majority

or will they follow the leader

like sheep to the slaughter

it remains to be seen

if the mass has matured

and is aware of the position

but really don’t care…

.

©Denise G Allen, 07 May 2013 07:37

Trust

.

My trust lies in the dust

trampled underfoot

my soul is exposed

as a worthless part of the heart

revealed as nothing more

and nothing less

than just another word…

I need another world

another space where faith

can teach me to trust again

and not barter trust

for a place in the sun

.

©Denise G Allen, 15 April 2013 09:17

All Sorts

.

It takes all sorts to make our world –
our nation –
short and tall, fat or thin,
young and old, scared or bold,
our rainbow presentation
(the Arch said it well).

But nineteen years down the line
FREEdom is still a dream
For the man in the street,
edUCAtion fails us year after year;
no pick-me-up for those in need,
jobs are scarCe and money worse.

What’s to do, if at all…
do we run or do we fall…
do we have a hero to douse the flames –
or a Nero to play his fiddle while we burn?

©Denise G Allen, 04 April 2013 06:03

Freedom

.

You have freed my psyche from the bindings

from restraints that held it back

i can feel the thrill of pleasure

welling up to overflow

within my soul

.

©DGA 01 February 2012 07:35

A Glass of Wine

~

I will free my feelings

with a glass of wine

.

Unwrap and disentangle

the knot of twine

 .

For years they’ve been

under tight control

 .

Now I’ll release them

to heal my soul

 .

To make it whole

to rock ‘n roll

 ~

©DGA 02 December 2011 02:09

Freedom in a Bubble – Repost

Sidey’s Weekend Challenge – 25.11.2011: Bubbles

.

.

Freedom in a Bubble

.

I am in a bubble

Floating in the air,

Drifting in the breeze

To I know not where.

Wonderfully weightless,

Up and up I fly,

Higher and higher

In a cloudless sky.

Oh what a feeling

Of freedom at last –

No more looking back

To the prison of my past.

 .

Photo: http://blog.shirleywalsh.com/bubbles-418.html

©DGA 26.09.2010

Freedom

~

Once upon a fairy tale

In my naivety, I believed in love

And forever-after happiness

Till in disillusion I shrugged off

The cloak of self-deceit

And freed myself to breathe

To find myself, allow myself to be

With no stifling restrictions

At last I was free, the inimitable me

I found my compass to check my progress

Without which I would surely have been lost

The devil’s daughter, saved by He

Who truly set me free

~

©DGA 23 November 2011 05:49

Freedom?

.

We, in our cocoons,

Tortoises, poke out our heads

From under our shells

To check out the weather.

Whether…?

Living in our cells,

Prisoners with no bars,

We are our guards?

.

©DGA 11 November 2011 07:18

Journey through Hades

Journey through Hades

~~~

I thought we were two halves of a whole,

But how wrong could I be?

There was room for only one

And it wasn’t me.

I was trapped in a trip through Hades,

The prey on a spider’s web,

Watching dust motes

Floating on a sunbeam,

Envying them their freedom.

~~~

©DGA Friday, 12 August 2011 12:11

Freedom in a Bubble

Freedom in a Bubble

I am in a bubble
Floating in the air,
Drifting in the breeze
To I know not where.

Wonderfully weightless,
Up and up I fly,
Higher and higher
In a cloudless sky.

Oh what a feeling
Of freedom at last –
No more looking back
To the prison of my past.

Photo: http://blog.shirleywalsh.com/bubbles-418.html

©DGA 26.09.2010