Eva Santiago © 2016-2024
Tag: Poetry
OUR YESTERDAYS
Our yesterdays become today’s poetry
What mis-guided steps we took in earlier days
Become the compass to guide or mis-guide us through life’s tempests in later years
Our flood of tears that overwhelmed us as babes
Water and keep fertile our heart’s soil in our golden years
Our early attempts at art:
Our stick figures we clumsily drew and our finger paintings
Become the force behind master strokes
On the masterpiece we paint of our whole life
The notes we failed to carry when we were tone deaf
Become the notes angelic beings carry to and fro
Up and down Jacob’s ladder
Aligning the celestial harmonies
Between our heavenly residence and our earthly abode
The multitude of our unanswered questions
We asked while at our parent’s knees
Become our song’s lyrics
The stuff of our novels , stories and poems
We are greater than the sum of earth’s square footage
We are greater than the power of all rulers, past and present combined
Our greatness emanates from the Divine!
Eva Santiago copyright 2016
BITTER SWEET
We all drink from a certain cup
Bitter or sweet,
We take our daily libations from life’s fountain
A drink from a bitter cup has to be chased by a sip from the sweet one
or how would we make it?
Some choose bitter some choose sweet
Then there are those of us who figured long ago both are essential,
you can’t have bitter without the sweet
you can’t have sweet without the bitter
A babe craves sweet as it can’t handle bitter
The mature turn bitter from having swallowed the delusions that come with too much sweet
Too much sweet rots you from the inside out
So does too much bitter
Some drink their cups of shattered scraps as if that’s all there is
A wilder mind accepts that bitter and sweet cups are the stuff of life’s elixir
The bitter enhances the sweet and the sweet softens the bitter
You weren’t meant to drown in your bitter gall
Nor were you meant to be pacified by all that is sweet
The bitter tames your soul, makes it pliable
The sweet enhances all that is good in you
EVA SANTIAGO copyright 2016
What’s in a Name?
What’s in a name?
Your character
Your personality
Your quirks
Your demons
Your warrior angel
Your frustrations
Your hidden intentions
Your truth
Your lies
Some change their birth names, ending chapters to stormy pasts
Some out grow their birth names
Still, some take on new appellations in search of new identities
Our names, name our past, present and future
Our names make, or break us
Our names are not etched in stone
But some can be found in Heaven’s book of Life!
Eva Santiago©2015-2024
Love Requires Relationship
How love dies:
When selfishness stabs it repeatedly
When betrayal bares ugly baby twins: Fear and Doubt
When truth is incessantly violated by a violent violator
LIGHT BEINGS
She’s the cracked pavement, a stage his shadow dances on. proving he is a being of light
Great Things Don’t Go Away
When you’re great, like The Great Wall of China:
You will be viewed as a wonder
You life will have branches and spurs
Your towers stand fortified
You’ll be a monument of awe
When you’re great, you are a timeless
It Takes 2
It takes to to make a thing go right
It takes 2 to fuck things up
It takes 2 to build a dream
it takes 2 to destroy it
It takes 2 to live in paradise
it takes 2 to fall from grace
It takes 2 agree and release power
It takes 2 to be in discord and release hell
It takes 2 to Tango, Mamba,Cha-Cha and Waltz
It takes 2 to step on each other’s feet
Miss beats
Miss cues and land flat on your face
It takes 2 to start a never ending war
It takes 2 to set 10,000 demons to flight
It takes 2 to call those demons back
It takes 2 to create a beautiful life in the womb
It takes 2 to abort it
It takes 2 to live in harmony
It takes 2 to make life a terrible cacophony
It takes 2.
EVA SANTIAGO copyright 2015
It takes 2 to sow discord and release hell
Story Telling
The story of my life Tells you where I’ve been What I’ve done The many things I’ve heard and seen The story of my life Will tell you I was once a wife I tried hard to live free I tried hard to get rid … Continue reading Story Telling
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