JUANITA GARCIA VERA

JUANITA GARCIA VERA

I DID NOT ASK TO WRITE

I did not ask to write

The lines just kept on coming

From the land, the sea and greens

The trees were softly swaying

In whispers they kept sighing

The flowers were agonizing

The clouds once started pouring

A storm of salty blood

The Earth at once was crawling

In torment, she was screaming

And I was just appeasing

To give a voice to all

The silence I was hearing

The saddest tale of all

And when they started writing

In rhymes and songs repeating

In breaking showers of thunder

In trickling streams of sorrow

The winds of terror were stripping

The limbs were steady seeping

I did not ask to write

My heart just kept on ticking

And I alone was thinking

How could I appease them?

In World that cares for none

Their cries I heard so often

Their pleas were steady stirring

And I was busy strewing

A plea to save them all

© Juanita Garcia Vera

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THE FEEL OF COTTON

In the air, the scent  of  Cotton

So crisp and beautiful

The flowers are Yellow Sunshine

Their movement ever graceful

Like wings of Butterflies

In the breeze they wave

So   slightly

To greet

The light of dawn

At night the flowers are closing

To end the dying day

My memories   are always reaping

In   fields  of Lime and  Green.

© Juanita Garcia Vera

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Photograph Sunshine Heart ….  Juanita Garcia Vera

COWARDS AND HEROES

The noise outside my door

Rumbling, shouting

People running, crying and hiding

I quickly cut the lights

So I couldn’t see them

So they couldn’t see me

Cupped my hands over my ears

So I could not hear them

I was dumfounded and afraid

I wanted no involvement

What could I do?

I locked  the doors

Avoided the pain

Evaded the struggle

I went to bed

Shutting out the light

Each day, I stayed

Less and less the light

Less and less the sounds

Until one day

I could not see

Or feel anything

It is said that cowards

Die a million deaths

In their fears

Heroes die but once

While regrets haunt an Eternity

© Juanita Garcia Vera

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JUANITA GARCIA VERA