Pearl River Community College's award winning literary magazine

Special Edition—Spring-Summer 1998

Poetry Section

Anna Claire Morgan

Forgiveness
 

Childish mistakes ruin adults;
The past haunts the future.
Twice as much is now never enough,
Forever I'll pay the price.
My voice calls out. My heart bleeds.
The clock won't let me go back,
But I beg to turn around.
The doors of time slam in my face.
My eyes close in desperation;
They open to face bruised feelings and hearts
Open and give me another chance.
 

Amanda
 

Her delicate body stains her bedroom floor;
Like a cold glass of spilled milk.
Her eyes mourn an unrequited love,
I gather her up to tell her she deserves more.

Corrected smiles gleam like the morning sun.
Her innocence puts an older mind at ease,
As child-like expressions escape a young lady.
Willing to offer laughter because she wants everyone to be young.

She's beautiful because she wants and loves to be,
A girlfriend's advice is her golden rule.
Buried in weekend plans, she forgets reality of today.
Awaiting a phone call, she burns with girlish glee.

Life's hard faces will never catch her;
The shine of her beauty crowns blur the truth.
Once she touches you, you're never the same
Because Sweet Sixteen never gets any sweeter.
 

Fallen
 

My blood beats on rose petals
turned from yellow to red.
My feet never touch the ground.
Emotions gush through my veins
and explode from my eyes like fireworks.
My fingertips speak the words
your soul yearns to hear.
The music of sunshine and stars floods my ears
as my body dances to the rhythm of love.