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
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
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
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
