WHAT AM I

WHAT AM I 

...A simple question 

I ask...

What am I?

Am I some thing

That to you

Is amusing 

Or a thing

So repulsive?

I wonder 

Am I  an object 

Of mere beauty 

To be admired 

Only?

What if you 

Touch me

What if you

Dare to love 

Me...

Will I shatter 

And will you 

Break

Or will we both live

To face

Radiantly another 

Day?

What am 

I?

A pointed, sharp

Blade...

Or a blunt object 

Useless?

Well you might

Not know

The true me

But I do...

Am a woman 

Without whom

The world 

Would be not...

What am I?

I am life

In abundance...!

      FREDERIKA MENEZES 

WHAT AM I

...A simple question 

I ask...

What am I?

Am I some thing

That to you

Is amusing 

Or a thing

So repulsive?

I wonder 

AmI  an object 

Of mere beauty 

To be admired 

Only...

What if you 

Touch me

What if you

Dare to love 

Me...

Will I shatter

And will you 

Break

Or will we both live

To face

Radiantly another 

Day?

What am 

I?

A pointed, sharp

Blade...

Or a blunt object 

Useless?

Well you might

Nit know

The true me

But I do...

Am a woman 

Without whom

The world 

Wiuld be not...

What am I?

I am life...!

      FREDERIKA MENEZES 

REQUEST TO BE ALIVE

REQUEST TO  BE ALIVE 

My soul

Is an empty

Shell...

In it, echoes

My heartbeats...

My mind is filled

With words

Written 

Says that to 

My eyes 

Bring tears...

I want to 

Smile and laugh 

Be at peace!

The storm that

Caught me

Was a one of

Feels...

Laughter and thrills

All to me felt

Too real...

I miss them

I will not deny

For in them

I found a hidden 

Life!

I still breathe 

Tbough I wonder 

Why...

I still hope

In being once

Again 

Alive...

Empty soul, echo

My heartbeats no more...

Mind, start afresh

Let me know 

Myself bubbly, carefree self

Again...!

                    FREDERIKA MENEZES 

WHERE MY FREEDOM LIES

WHERE MY FREEDOM LIES 

I have seen 

Another year

Of heart break 

And cheer...

Have been treated

Like a child

Who doesn't know 

Good from bad

Have been

Treated with 

Disregard to my feels

And with disrespect...

Yet, I smile 

I laugh

Getting through 

My days

In quiet strife!

They are happy 

Those who surround 

Me...

They believe that

They have done 

Well 

By robbing me

Of my

Sparrow friend...

Do they not

Know

Do they not

Realize 

Nothing breaks 

A real friendship 

Not even time?

Fools and hypocrites!

Wish they'd awaken

And open 

Their hearts and minds 

To let me be 

Free

And with my

Sparrow friend 

Take to the 

Skies...

For with

The Sparrow 

My freedom

Lies...!

          FREDERIKA MENEZES 

TO THE KNOW IT ALLS

TO THE KNOW IT ALLS

I am scrawling 

A rhyme

That has 

Nothing whatsoever 

To do

With the present

Time...

Neither does it

Have to do

With

The past...

These are 

Mere lines

Written

To pass my

While!

There are a 

Certain few

Who have it

In their 

Mind

That every one

Of my rhymes 

Is a reflection 

Of my heart...

Of my thoughts

Of my life...

In this case

They are 

Far ftom right...

A poem can 

Be about

None of this

Not all of it...

A poem can

Be

Just words that

For fun

Rhyme!

So here is 

To them

Who think otherwise...

My friend and friends 

Wake up

Clear your minds

And yes

Please do 

Get a life...!

        FREDERIKA MENEZES 

PRAYER TO THE SKIES

PRAYER TO THE SKIES 

It was a

Sunny noon

When on 

My window ledge

Precariously perched

A beautiful 

Song bird

Began to croon...

It's eyes were

Like that of

Melted chocolate 

And it's feathers

Resembled

Honey brown...

I gazed at it

In wonder

Thinking

Oh wow!

It sang of life

Of prettiness 

Of my eyes...

It's song held

A promise...

I smiled and laughed 

Like never before 

This song bird

Was no bore!

Oft it came

It sang and left

Oft it came 

And we became 

The closest 

Of friends...

I talked, it sang

Somehow, life feels 

And experiences

We shared!

But one day 

A harsh wind 

Blew...

The song bird

Perched on 

The window 

Got, carried away...

I tried to grasp

It

But the wind

Had it first...

The song bird 

Was not like 

Its own kind...

Brilliantly unique 

Is how I 

Still describe it...

Almost mine

Though never quite

I pray to the

Skies

I one day again see 

It...

That we

Might once more 

Be

The song bird 

And me

The unlikeliest 

Of closest of friends 

Instead...!

        FREDERIKA MENEZES

TO A DEAR

TO A DEAR

Dear you 

I don't what to say

Or do...

Constantly find 

Myself 

Thinking of you...

I haven't pulled 

Away

But close to

You 

I have remained!

Faithful and caring 

My life

With you am

Sharing...

With every thought 

I pen down 

And point of view

I pan out...

Dear you

Let me 

Tell you truth...

You won 

My deep affections 

The day into

My life

You set foot!

When will you 

Understand and accept 

Am no ordinary 

Friend...?

Am just 

Me

Requesting you 

To embrace 

And let me go never

From 

Before your

Face...!

           FREDERIKA MENEZES