Tuesday, 18 February 2020

THE DREAM COME ALIVE

THE DREAM COME ALIVE 

She holds her
In her arms...
She rocks her
Gently.

Her dream
Has taken breath
How precious she is...

The world beyond 
Is cruel
It snatches the soul
Leaving the body
Bereft and unwhole.

How can she
Protect the one
She has birthed?

Shall she keep
Her young
Forever in an 
Embrace
Or will it be
Easier to
Hold her prisoner 
Instead of letting 
Her fall
Into the traps
Of bad fate?

She must be 
Happy...
The little one
Must live
And not wilt away
As she did...

How will it
Come to be
The joy of
The living dream?

Tears flow 
Like slow moving
Streams...

She knows
Let her go, she has to
If she wants her 
To live and not
Just be...

One day ,the 
Living dream 
Will hold her own 
Dream come to 
Life..

She will then
Know 
The best way to 
Decide 
On how to 
Let her
Little one 
Live her life...!

           FREDERIKA MENEZES 

Monday, 20 January 2020

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 

Thursday, 9 January 2020

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 

Friday, 13 December 2019

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 

Tuesday, 10 December 2019

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 

Wednesday, 4 December 2019

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