Love Poetry: Black & White World

by Lisa Jane Mills
(England)

'Why should I change?
Rearrange myself
Just to please others.
I want to be free,
Be me and
“Breathe“
Instead of being suffocated
By the weight of life
Upon my shoulders.
I stand and stare
At people unaware,
Who I watch and contemplate
The love, the hate
They carry inside them.

"Love"
A subject
I will never understand,
It gives, to take
And so will break
Your spirit, your soul
Yet I cannot let go,
Of the heartache, the pain
Holding the blame
Like a trophy,
That rusts in the rain.

I sit here amidst the silence
A friend who knows my fears,
And through the years
He has never spoken,
The spell never broken
Of wanting to hear
A warm kind voice,
Given that choice
To be loved.
Yet left out in the cold,
Time grows old
And so do I.

"Hate"
An unwanted state
I find myself in,
Being beaten down
Where no one around
Will listen or see,
Don’t tell me.
Hate is the Devil
Upon my back,
Makes me attack
To defend myself
For being weak,
For the words I speak.
It twists my tongue
Everything’s wrong
In the eyes of Love,
Because love is blind
And more unkind
Than hate could ever be.

It abandoned me
With all this love
Unused and wasted
So overrated
Are the words
I love you
When they are said
From one heart alone
So cuts to the bone.
But loves upper hand
Takes control every time
And what was mine,
Was never mine
At all.

White is love
Black is hate,
Black and white
A negative state,
But like the Devil
I see red
When I lay my head
To sleep at night
In my black and white world.'


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