You seek redemption
I cannot give
Your crimes to numerous
The atrocities wide spread.
Payment must be received
Though no coin will be paid
Vengeance never is sweet
To those deserving its touch
You deny the possibility
Yet it will come for you
No shadow darkness thick
No hole deep enough
I wait until then
Redemption’s price revealed
Justice made real
Copyright 2017 Heidi Barnes
Shadowy alleyways
Darken corners
Not a soul in sight
Waiting for footsteps
Stalking the night
Warnings of danger
Gone unheeded
Seeking something dangerous
Forbidden
A thrill
The props are in place
Cloth wrapped tight
Skin exposed
To winters might
Highest heels
Shortest skirt
Swaying hips
Quietly screaming
Please
Come take
Shadows move
Figures five make
Faltering steps
Second thoughts too late
Deed set in motion
No turning back
Ready or not
They attack
Copyright 2017 Heidi Barnes
What do you want from me?
I didn’t ask for this.
I didn’t ask for you!
Leave me be!
Walking through life
alone and free.
Happy in my plight
peaceful quiet nights.
In you walk
full of spitfire
life.
A ray of sunshine
silence broken
laughter in the night
Why me?
Why not him
or her?
Anyone else
A companion make.
There is the dog!
Please go
for Godsakes!
What do you want from me?
Why can’t I breathe?
You’re coming closer….
Please….
don’t leave.
Copyright © 2017 Heidi Barnes
The words were out
No taking them back
No explanation needed
A short pause of disbelief
and you were gone
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Tick tock
Tick tock
The clock ticks down
The minutes stop
Tick tock
Tick tock
The beast has risen
Death appears
Tick tock
Tick tock
Times up
To late for prayers
© 2017 Heidi Barnes
Afraid to touch
afraid to see
So beautiful
so vibrant
so full of life is she
To hear her voice
is to hear no more
So exquisite
so divine
so delicate a tone
Beauty so deep
beauty so raw
nothing compares
Copyright 2017 Heidi Barnes
There it sits,
beckoning me.
White, pure, pristine.
Golden secrets swirling inside
coming together to reveal
when magic appears.
Dare I open it?
Dare I see
if the invitation is really
for me?
Copyright 2017 Heidi Barnes
Tea for two
Apples are blue
When the night sky alights
I think of you
Come to me
When daisies can see
I will give to you
Kisses so sweet
Lie with me
On angel’s wings
Promises of true love
I will sing
Listen if you must
To serpent’s lies
See the truth
Within my eyes
Tea for two
Apples are blue
Wish upon a star
I will never be far
Copyright 2017 Heidi Barnes
The days go by
one by one
there seems no end
to this torment
and scorn
When lines are crossed
and bridges burned
there is no turning back
no redemption earned
The chasm before me
is wide and deep
Desert lay behind
green and lush before me sweeps
Crossing into the unknown
is scary at best
One last bridge
one foot forward
one last hope
for a life worth living.
Copyright 2017 Heidi Barnes
Crisp clean lines
Scrawled across the paper
Images of beauty
Tranquillity
Death and renewal
What ends
Will begin again
Different in all but one
No matter how long you fight it
Rant and rave against it
Ignore what is so plain to see
Life moves forever forward
Do not dismiss the beauty around you
Revel in it
For tomorrow is another day
The beauty different
Wonders to take in
Process
Put to paper
What the eye sees
The soul feels
And the heart hears
Be it a sweet song
Or tradgey
Copyright © 2017 Heidi Barnes
This is from a prompt on Writing Outside the lines.
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