Submissions by IfTheseWingsCould

Why did you have to go and be human,
Right when I was comfortable in our place?
You just had to drop the mask,
And show me your unguarded face!

You could have kept it on,
And saved me from the disgrace.
Let me keep on believing
There was nothing below your surface.

But instead you choose now
To drop it on me like a bomb.
Forcing me to regret
All the ways that I've done wrong.

Many moons have passed
Since our time was new,
And every day I'd sit and wait
Begging to feel a connection to...

I walk with mother,  
Silently beneath trees.      
As one of her beloved daughters,      
Full of rebellion & curiosity.      
      
Surely she gently laughs    
as my eyes come alive    
to the sight of butterfly wings.      
Or as I trace the bark, with my fingertips,    
of each passing tree.      
     
I know the feeling of her tug,      
as she beseeches my heart      
to seek      
to understand      
her timeless melodies.      
     
Oh, beautiful mother,      
Whom...