BEIGE

BEIGE

It's all beige

Nothing alive

Not a thing breathing...

I seek for signs

Of life hues...

None catch my eye

I'm reduced to tears...

It was alive.

Breath was teeming...

What might have 

Resulted in such

Tragic disappearing?

A whispered

Contempt

Unloving songs sung

A promise made

Never kept.

I question whether 

These might be 

Why the hues

Of life

Had left?

Beige, is all

I still see.

Even the colors

Of music do not

Appear differently...

Wake up my world

Wake up life

Beige is naught

What it was 

Made to be like.

Oh, my sight

When shall your 

Desire, you see...?

            FREDERIKA MENEZES 

NAUGHT BUT A PUPPET

NAUGHT BUT A PUPPET

Color me azure

With your words...

They cut through 

My soul...

Oh, about this 

What  would you know?

Fo you, it is 

Something I deserve...

My heart is a 

Broken glass...

Fragments of it

Piece the core

Òf my empty soul.

My mind is a 

Grey canvas

Every memory taken

Away,, erased!

All that is

Left of me

Are limbs and the such...

Easily desposed of

If you will it...

I realize I am 

Naught but a

Puppet

Of your verbally 

Abusive strings...!

     FREDERIKA MENEZES 

HEED AND REACT

HEED AND REACT

I hear it

A fourteen year old

Heart beat...

It  is in tune

With a sad

Melancholy 

Beating for

The sake of

Just being...

I see them

Fourteen year old

Eyes

Look at the surrounding...

They brim with 

Tears

At what is happening!

Untruths being told

And rage been 

Given reign to.

Through mankind's 

Doings 

How the World's 

Cloak of seasons 

Have cruelly

Been rearranging...

The soul of the

Fourteen year old

Heaves...

If only 

Humankind would

Stop

Its greed

In every which way

Its ego it feeds...

The Earth's pain

Would gradually heal

The fourteen year   

Old life

Would laugh and 

Smile

No longer in hurt

Sigh!

If only

Humanity would 

Take heed and 

React

Before fourteen 

Turns to a 

Fossil 

A lost memory 

In the World's 

New breath...!!

        FREDERIKA MENEZES 

THE OYSTER CALLED WORLD L

THE OYSTER CALLED WORLD 

I saw them

At me, smile...

Surely they liked

Me, I thought 

Let me go

Hangout with them a

While...

Decided, I!

As my wheelchair 

I rolled

Fast as can be, filled 

Was I 

With a sense

Of belonging...

As I neared, I 

Saw their smiles

Grow to toothy

Grins and wicked 

Laughs!

Why were they 

Laughing so?

I wanted to know.

Reading curiosity 

On my face

The first said 

That though beautiful 

I was a physical disgrace...

And then turned away!

The second nodded 

Adding that though I 

Spoke, my voice 

Was a garble of words

And perhaps I couldn't 

Even understand or hear...

The second turned 

And left

As well!

A frown creased

My brow

Why were they leaving 

Hadn't they beckoned

To me 

With friendly smiles?

I wondered...

The last remained

Standing a while

Grinning...

Kneeling then spoke

To me

Underlying what already 

Was said

Added a thing or two 

More...

I was apparently 

Beautifully pretty

And intelligently smart

But lack I did

The ability 

To capture the walking 

Heart...

I was being admired 

For my smile 

And pretty face alone!

A sad melancholy 

Stole over me

As I turned to 

The sleepy sun...

A gently wind

Caressed and embraced 

Me.. 

A butterfly kissed 

My lips!

I was the beastly beauty 

Of a pearl

In the oyster called 

World...!

      

               FREDERIKA MENEZES 

        

2021, WELCOME ALREADY

2021, WELCOME ALRÈADY

 Dear 2020

It's time to 

Say bye bye eesh

And for all you 

Have brought me

I confess,I don't love it...

So with you, take it!

2021

You're a year yet

Unborn

And in you, I the world

Place the following 

Order...

Love and joy 

Success and Beauty unbounded 

With freedom to

Smile and laugh unhindered...

365 days

Bring me these

That I caught up

In these, I may forget 

What was 

And instead 

Revel in what is...

Riģht. Off you go

2020

Off of my calendar 

Man, you have been 

Creepy!

2021

Make me proud 

That in you I shall sing

And dance 

About knowing you...!

         FREDERIKA MENEZES 

FAIRIES, IN YOU I BELIEVE

FAIRIES, IN YOU I BELIEVE 

Sprinkle fairy dust 

Over me

That what I wish

In my heart of hearts

Might be real...

For, my wish is 

Ever so child like 

And true...

Flutter fairy wings

Upon my every breath 

That I may

Inhale the goodness alone

Leaving the bad

Aside...

This I believe, is my 

Life's right!

Oh fairies 

So magically beautiful 

Spread your beauty

In these present moments 

Of my life...

That the tormenting fog

May change and be 

Joyful, pretty and a

Delight to live in...

Fairies, in you I 

Truly believe 

Let me not down

Rather grant me the 

Wishes

I have penned here 

In this poetic rhyme...!

        FREDERIKA MENEZES2

WITHIN UNSTEADY ARMS

WITHIN UNSTEADY ARMS 

We cradle life

In our 

Unsteady arms...

Unsteady from tiredness

From hurt and 

Loneliness...

We cradle life and

Watch it grow

Entraced, we wonder

How time

Flows!

With each breath

To life, hope we p

Try to give

Cradling gently 

Precariously 

As we live...

For the world 

Is nasty

Forcing our hand

In doing it's will...

It's tough

Yet we do our best...

We cradle life

Not just the now

Born

But our own

And that of

Our beloved's one...

Life, yes precious life

Stay close to

The heart that loves

And within the

Arms that

Unsteadily cradle you

Yet not once

Letting you l

Fall

Therein remain...!

         FREDERIKA MENEZES