Unfulfilled
Echoing emptiness ricochet through fleshy shell
Bouncing into everlasting purposelessness
Fruitlessly trying to fill the hole with nothingness
Constantly producing tears, pitiful moans
Staring out from hopeless eyes
Reaching through dormant hands
Hands that toil for no task
Inhaling despair
Exhaling forsaken dreams
Sleeping through opportunities
Fearing change
Dodging chance
Welcoming failure with pious stupidity
Yearning to be miraculously filled
Yet lazily accepting the bland monotony of mediocrity
Swallowing more empty
Gorging on average
Forgetting to live free
Violette L. Reid 2006

I Refuse
to ball of fetally
for the world to step on me
helpless to fate
mindless to destiny
I REFUSE
if I can see
I can do
if I can dream
I can demonstrate
I will make it in this world
my words will be spoken
my gift will be heard
submit
I REFUSE
die
I REFUSE
loose
I REFUSE
I REFUSE VLReid 1999

MIND GAMES©
So much time wasted on others when from day one
butterflies fluttered within me when you are near me
Why couldn’t my heart yell “hear me!”
To my body determined to ignore the feelings I was destined for
Countless times I’ve closed my eyes and wondered what could have been
But didn’t become
What is the sum of this twisted equation
That lazily works on my brain like advanced trigonometry on occasion
Too little too late I contemplate about what if you and me became WE
But I guess WE weren’t in the cards you see
Maybe destiny enjoys playing cruel jokes on me
But I still win again and again when you visit my dreams
In a future that seems more logically real regarding the future of us
In my heart you will always be mine
Maybe next lifetime we will speak up and not let time sneak up
And extinguish a spark destined to grow into an immense inferno
Woulda, coulda, shoulda only exists in memory’s kiss
Ever so often blessing me with this sweet sensation of idealized revelations
Please release me from your hypnotic trance
That forces my heart to dance every time you lay eyes on me
You see, this power you have over me
Grows stronger the longer I am in your presence
And seems to last an eternity
I guess that will forever be you and me.  2003