If I Were ~ Part 2

If I were a bird

soaring high up in the sky

I would watch the world beneath

see the people and their lies

If I were a whale

wandering seas and oceans deep

I would hide beneath the waves

for my safety I must keep

If I were a lion

roaming through my vast kingdom

I would cower at their guns

until the hunters were all gone

If I were a man

with the world beneath my feet

I would rape it for myself

it is mine for me to keep

Poetryman

Copyright © 2011 by Mike Sutcliffe

My Window

Shadows pass never looking in

through murky glass the lights are dim

watching the world pass silently by

sometimes they laugh, sometimes they cry

To glimpse the others from deep within

some tall, some fat, some round, some thin

I wonder where their haste takes them

as I peer from deep within my den

Afraid to venture to the other side

where reality exists, you have to live life

such fear strikes through my fragile soul

behind my window growing ever old

A cocooned world of safety and light

hidden from life, hidden from sight

Poetryman

Copyright © 2011 by Mike Sutcliffe

The Connection

Beep, beep. Beep beep

goes my text coming in

when I’m just pressing send

yes we did it again

it’s our pattern you see

being one

~ her and me

Way back in time

when my thoughts were just mine

I really couldn’t see

what she would truly mean

that this love could be

so real

~ for me

It may take it’s time

that love most don’t find

but one day it will rhyme

as you merge into one

with each others thoughts

playing just a single tone

This connection we found

after years milling around

until fate intervened

and made us

it seems,

finally be

we

Poetryman

Copyright © 2011 by Mike Sutcliffe