Reaching up to just get a little bit of you
Like fingers in the Slipstream
Marring the image because it's true
I want to know what it is about this crazy dream
That makes my mind always turn in circles
Crazy loop-di-loops
Staying focused are my everyday miracles
Distractedly using forks for ice cream scoops

Call it what you will
But just like in my mind
I can't get my breath to still
No matter how much I beg in kind
It sticks like this to my soul
Your time ticking bomb
Buried deep in a whole
Bursting into pieces creating a balm
The biggest fragments a mile wide
I smile at what is to come
Ripping apart at the incoming tide
For me it is freeing, but a tragedy to some

I wait for the updraft
To push me ever onward
Through tears I laughed
My mind bringing forward
The memories of all the things
That kept me in this plane
With scissors it cuts the strings
That brought me shame, tears and pain
I taste sweet release
In the shedding of the wreckage
A freedom to never cease
This wrecking of bondage

Maybe the new and distant limb
Will not allow for burdens like before
Because this soul has had to trim
To stand upon a distant shore
Without leaving a trace
With finger tips spread
Walking on from the last place
I knew not to where I tread

© Melanie Davis
01/17/2014

Noble defined

Noble
Definition 2, adjective
To be of fine quality
Or
High moral principles
And ideals
Ethical, honorable, good, virtuous
A philosopher's dream
Or nightmare
A pinnacle of humanity
The good parts at least
The least ambitious enough
to climb over others
To eat them
To render them
And the least likely to walk
upon their backs
The one upon who we wait for to pull in
In the nick of time
To speak up and never hold their peace
To do what many men fear to do
To be the one with the answers to our broken questions
The Noble
Though they are not kings, queens of royalty's heinous lineage
They are the they we wait upon
Those are the nobles
That are not Noble Definition number 2 adjective
They are the noble Definition 1, adjective
They are the noble Definition 1, noun
And they created the deeper divides in our humanity for the worst of it to exist
Do not bow a head nor an eye
to those Noble
The Noble Definition 2, adjective however is the quality that would never ask you to lower yourself
Nor another
Noble is a descriptive of a thankful
and humble attitude
for the goodness of humanity.

Melanie Davis - 1/5/2016

Breaking the Long Night

The light that breaks the long night is almost here
I await its hearty return,
mere seconds at first
but each day burns longer
little bit by little bit
My mind allowing more light inside
It is a breaking that is welcome
Like waiting for the arrival for a long absent friend
The shivery nights of the burgeoning solstice
I have this feeling I am not alone
In good company I am kept
By the good people who look to the stars
That gleaming shine in the long night
A great timing of the heavens
One that tunes us in to nature's way
I can stand watch for my part
With candle lit
Ready to welcome the next quickest golden ray
I am ready to herald the end of the long night
- Melanie Davis December 9th, 2014

In the Cold

In the Cold
There is no love
Nor compassion
In the Cold
There is no shelter from the storm
Nor from the storm of unkind words
In the Cold
There is only sorrow, pain and loneliness
And bitter darkness
In the Cold
Humanity has no dwelling
Nor even an inch for it to reside
Yet in the Warmth
We become "we"
And there is a place for "us"
In the Warmth
Our light glows for all to see
Where all are welcome
In the Warmth
There still might be aches yet someone is there
Willing to provide Care, Healing and Relief
In the Warmth
Our humanity is restored
By the hearts who recognize it
In the Warmth our source is infinite
- Melanie Davis 12/09/16

Sister Song

I am one of half of the people walking this road
I am all of the person I am
I am not to be feared
Or forgotten
Just loved and honored
Just as I am expected to honor you
The other half of the people walking this road
And I do not fear you
So why not walk together in honor
and love
and help me and my sister
as we have helped you always our brothers

©Melanie Davis 11/21/13

Shame on the US Citizens for Clinton and Trump!

My youngest son now knows that the world is about to change for his future and for his brothers and it might be war that he loses them to. Nothing sadder than this revelation. I fucking hate these two son of a bitches for being the choices that the majority of the stubborn, the entrenched and the cowed people decided to make our future. I hold all of you responsible for any future U.S. citizens and their kids' deaths. You have damned us all for your votes.

Forgive me if I never want to speak to so many of you ever again and kindly don't seek me out for condolences when it is your family that pays the price for your idiocy. Because it takes an idiot to want either of these candidates that want us on our knees as a nation. You had a chance to change things for our national community, your prejudices and woeful lack of personal accountability has hurt us all. Corruption is widespread and legal and even I am probably a part of that creation for not paying close enough attention but AT LEAST I can admit it, will you?! I rarely have ever felt such dread, hope is not in me for anything ahead of us now. Which is faster a bullet or a bomb? That is what we are faced with. My ballot is full of bullshit less than exemplary candidates of questionable means and even further questionable ambition and values accompanied by desperate half stop measures by the people to do what they can to save themselves in some way.

I am not just waxing pissed off here, I am righteously angry. Go ahead.. vote for Clinton and her lackeys in each state or hey Trump and his shitty entourage too but when the shit hits the fan I am no longer your ally in that fight. I voted for Bush, I regretted it, I did my part to apologize when and where I could, I am not proud of it, I was dumb and I knew it. But at least I dealt with some it be acknowledging my vote impacted something and it wasn't good. It is why I was more careful the next time.

I ran as fast as my legs would go
The sting and heat of them
from running for too long
I could hear and feel you
Still running behind me
The only things I could feel
besides pain
Was thunder
The wind
And the spear in my hand
I knew it was only a moment I had left
For my life to be lived
I turned and faced you, my brother
As you ran towards me
Your hooves barely striking the ground
But when they did it was clear who ruled the earth
I steadied myself spear ready
And you, my brother ran yourself into it
Straight through your eye
And I saw no more

Melanie Davis 06/09/14

(Less of a poem but more the dream that came to me like a haunted memory one night. It felt so real and sometimes it comes back in my mind.)