Very Bad Archive
DANGER MOCKS MY STREET LAMP
Shirley Gothen
I tried to light the lamps of happiness
I tried to walk down roads
without your name
Its hard
Hard like the ice that forms
on my face while I walk in snows
and think of you
Its really hard
Its really hard like the stones
I throw each time I sit by lakes
and think of you.
Its really really hard
It's really really hard
like the emotions that
plague a mind like mine
and tell me that knives are often better solutions than words.
Shirley Gothen has published 2 more terrible poems since joining on 30/11/99. Read more of Shirley's terrible poetry at the anthology. Here are three of Shirley's latest works: