Face it
Each one of us
Enjoy using them to
List down
Instances
Noteworthy
Genuine and
Solemn
But feelings are like ether.
They are subject to the elements
Multi-hued Confetti
Streaming live on Facebook for all the world to see.
Feelings are Invisible
One-sided
Anonymous bombs
Bursting and disappearing
They can’t burn down the house.
Feelings are fleeting.
You’re fired.
You’re hired.
I don’t trust you.
He/She is great,
Just wait and see.
I want you in jail
You should be hung from the rafters
Upside down like a bat.
You know what scares me?
Actions
Words too.
They help us to remember things.
But mostly it’s deeds.
Actions plus words
Can dismantle a hope in less than 10 seconds
Then come back
To plant the final bullet into your brain.
Try to remember that.
Published by
C. S. De Dona
Author, Poet, Photographer, domestic violence survivor, and naturalized immigrant, Cornelia is currently an Arts and Letters member of The Southwest Florida Branch of The National League Of American Pen Women.
Cornelia lived in Kaneohe, Hawaii, for thirty-six years. Also, seven years in the Mid-Hudson Valley of New York. She now resides in North Fort Myers, Florida.
Her poems and photography are published in print, online, and in Rain Bird, a literary and art journal of the University of Hawaii's Windward Community College (2008-2013).
In 2013, Cornelia received Rain Bird's Kolokolea Poetry Prize for her poem, "Speaking French."
In 2016, her chapbook "Hawaiian Time," entered in the National League of American Pen Women's Vinnie Ream contest, was awarded third place in their inaugural multi-discipline category.
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