Poetry and Prose by Russell Wardlow
My sunshine, is my son’s smiling
My sunshine, is answered calls when I’m dialing
My sunshine, is pictures sent with letters
My sunshine, has no bearing with the weather
My sunshine, is visitations
My sunshine, is freedom, the prize of patience
My sunshine, not a star but a part of matter
My sunshine, is mattering to those that matter
My sunshine, is every time I can smile
As time eclipses, I notice I haven’t felt my sunshine in a while.
Red, rose petals on the bed of defeat
My tongue intertwined between the legs of deceit
Penetrate my delusions on the lies of these sheets
She starts to scream out the side that she hides as she rises to her peak
But before she misspeaks…she peeks
She quiets, tenses & we lock eyes
She comes…
Forward with truth so strong she unlocks mine
Heaves in her chest, flush in her flesh was showing
nothing said, just tides of a melancholy knowing –
Dead, rose petals on the bed of deceit
I morbidly leave, from between, the legs of defeat…
1 minute we fight, 1 minute we love
1 minute we hug, 1 minute we shove
1 minute we talk, next minute a fit
A whole minute we kiss
Next minute full of some venom we spit
It’s back and forth, but I put you first
Yet you wear your heart on your sleeveless shirt
So I’ll leave you first, instead of leavin’ hurt.
Passing time, when it’s still a test
30 something, you still a threat
Leggings cool, but you’d kill a dress
I mean “I am” when I say Im-pressed
No secret, you kill the rest
Yo’ secrets, still a guess
Victoria Secrets, if you confess
Soul seekin when we connect
They say beauty is so vain
Well you have beauty in your veins
Because I see beauty in your pain
I think beauty is your name
My vice is your eyes, I see the sunrise peaking
Sucked in, I’m intertwined- in your Devine secret
As the stars align – I see you are my Venus
My weakness undisguised when you start speaking…
I’m speechless – my heart hanging on for dear life-
A leaflet, blossoming with forbidden fruit-
Ms. Eden, I’m feigning, to bite- as if I’m teethin
Ms. Misleadin- you’re such a seductress
Teasing yet so appeasing
Bashful with no treason to your values and reasons
You a year in a day, in your own way
My 4 Seasons.
In love with the love in “love word”
In love with the love in “love verbs”
In love with the love in “love works”
In love with the love in “love first”
In love with the love in “love hurts”
In love with the love in “love her”
In love with the love in “tough love”
In love with the love in “thug love”
In love with the love in “much love”
In love with the love in “trust love”
In love with the love’s in “love, love”
In love with you love, there’s no love,
I don’t love and I can’t get enough love
In love with the love in “ex-love”
In love with the love in “next love”