Before I fall asleep tonight
I’ll pray anew with all my might
Please take my heart and hold it tight
Don’t turn the shadows into light.
Squeeze tighter with each breath I take
I won’t mind the delay or shake
Yet if you see my eyes awake
Squeezer harder ‘til you feel it break.
Before I fall asleep tonight
I’ll pray again with all my might
My soul to take an endless flight…
When chained to hell, there is no light.
© Copyright 2018 Olivia G. Owens. All rights reserved.
This was written in response to a carnival themed poem. Hope you enjoy…
The human cannonball got fired
When he was properly attired.
He landed right next to a clown,
Who’d sadly walked into the town.
“So sad and blue you seem to be,
Would you like to get some tea?”
“The doctor I have got to see,
I broke my funny bone in three.”
The human cannonball kept on
And met a cannibal at dawn.
Laughing he was, rubbing his tummy,
The clown he ate made him feel funny.
The carnival in sight at last,
A happy monkey then he passed.
Enjoying a banana meal
Because it had tons of a-ppeal.
A place of fun’s the carnival
Where laughter can be terminal.
Satisfyingly Complicated 