TAMIKIO L. DOOLEY

 

 

The Unwritten Page

 

There are some pieces missing in my biography.

The biography that scared my life,

I put the blame on my mother,

And my father was nowhere to be found.

I asked my mother where and how?

She never told me,

When I asked,

It was then,

I realized without uncertainty,

That the unwritten page,

Is, surely, missing from my book of life,

And so, once I had grown from a little boy,

To a man,

I set out myself to find the unwritten page,

Without any question,

It is the man in me,

Which made me determined?

To find the unwritten page of my younger life,

And rewrite my history,

I want to write better than my blood,

Better to heal the wounds of my child hooded life,

My mother has forsaken me,

And I can’t say much of my father,

But he wasn’t there to raise the man out of me,

Or heal the little-boy-wounds of my heart.

My mother didn’t try,

So, I had to let her go,

Go on somewhere,

Wherever my father is, was, and be,

I have no feelings for the man I never met,

Could be dead and gone,

Never caring like my mother,

But the only thing that matters to me now,

Is finding the unwritten page of my life,

To rewrite my history.

 

The Ship On The Waves

 

With his stick, the fisherman at the lighthouse moves back from the waves. He walks further down the beach until he reaches a ship.

Though abandoned, the ship sits beautifully isolated, somewhat ominously, as the man continues his journey, clutching his stick.

The ship will eventually receive the man’s arrival. Positioned at the seashore’s edge, it seems to wait for him. All he can think about along the way was how to get on the ship, fix it, and guide toward the lighthouse across the way, the way lighthouse across the sea.

 

So, he it keeps circling around the seashore. The ship approaches, seemingly heading straight for him. It’s waiting for him. A decaying pile of broken wood leans precariously. The ship expects the man to repair it. To fix the wobbly deck, he looked underneath where he and his men could relax and enjoy card games and eat fish. Yet, his men had left him by the time he boarded the vessel.

 

TAMIKIO L. DOOLEY

 

TAMIKIO L. DOOLEY is a multi-award-winning author. She is the author of 170 titles and 125 published books. The author writes fiction and nonfiction of crime, thriller, mystery, fantasy, historical, western, romance, zombie apocalypse, and paranormal. In her spare time, she writes short stories, poetry, articles, essays, health books, and children’s books, diaries, journals, inspiring books, culture, African American and history books. She is also a blogger. Her research and studies areas are education mentor, health and history.