Poems My Friends Wrote
(the first one on here I just found)
SLOW
DANCE
Have you ever watched kids
On a merry-go-round?
Or listened to the rain
Slapping on the ground?
Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight?
Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?
You better slow down.
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.
Do you run through each day
On the fly?
When you ask How are you?
Do you hear the reply?
When the day is done
Do you lie in your bed
With the next hundred chores
Running through your head?
You'd better slow down
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.
Ever told your child,
We'll do it tomorrow?
And in your haste,
Not see his sorrow?
Ever lost touch,
Let a good friendship die
Cause you never had time
To call and say, "hi"
You'd better slow down.
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.
When you run so fast to get somewhere
You miss half the fun of getting there.
When you worry and hurry through your day,
It is like an unopened gift....
Thrown away.
Life is not a race.
Do take it slower
Hear the music
Before the song is over.
----Unknown
Life
Life is a bed of roses,
Nice from a distance, painful up close.
Get over it and move on.
-----Heidi Wollman
THE ANSWERING MACHINE
Verse 1:
He left me twelve messages today
Telling me, how much he misses me
And he's really sorry
But nothing erases this pain
Chorus:
I haven't answered the phone for days
I'm trying to ignore this pain
And he doesn't realize
We're over
And, baby, it's for good
Verse 2:
You left a message on my answering machine
Saying you'll always be there
And you can be there at a moment's notice
Because, baby, that's what friends are for
Chorus:
I haven't answered the phone for days
I'm trying to ignore this pain
And he doesn't realize
We're over
And, baby, it's for good
Verse 3:
I left you a message to say
The world ain't ending
All because she left
Because, baby, she ain't worth it
And I'm always here
And, boy, I can be there in a moment's notice
Chorus 2:
You haven't answered the phone for days
You're trying to ignore the pain
And she doesn't realize
What's she's missin' out on
Because, baby, you're the best
Verse 4:
I left a message on his machine today
Telling him we're through
And I never liked him, anyway
And I left her a message
Saying she don't know what she's missin'
And that someday we'll find someone
Just right for you
And we'll find someone
Just right for me
And in the meantime we'll call
And listen to the messages all day
And use each others shoulders to cry on
------Heidi Wollman
BROKEN WINGS
I was once someone's best friend
But when push came to shove
They acted like they didn't know me
And when my wings broke
I was nothing but gum on the bottom of their shoes
But you found me in the alley
And overlooked my broken wings
You put the pieces of my heart together again
You made me smile
When I didn't remember how
And do you ever remember when
You healed my wings and let me fly
And you are my best friend
------Heidi Wollman
IN THE DARK
They couldn't hear me
They choose not to see me
I cried alone
In the dark
Left to suffer alone
They thought I wasn't
Worth it
Maybe if I'd been
Someone else
Maybe if I tried harder
And fought through
The pain
But, they left me alone
Sitting in the dark
They didn't give a damn
And I couldn't help
But wonder
What would've happened,
If it been their daughters?
What would they have done?
Would they have let them,
Suffer through hell
Over and over,
Or would they have tried?
I can't bring myself to hate
Or to even be angry
There is an emptiness
Where my soul once was
Can they take back
The last three years
And all those tears
Can they remove
All the fears
Could they do that?
They can't do that
No one can
I sat there
Crying in the dark
----Heidi Wollman
Fairytale Life
I used to listen the stories
About the princesses kept under lock and key
I wondered when my prince would come for me
Did I need someone to set me free?
Yeah right
Oh no
This ain't some fantasy
Welcome to reality
I don't take after Rupunzel
And I don't want to be like Cinderella
I'm not Snow White
And Sleeping Beauty ain't for me
I'm gonna set me free
My wings were meant for me
When it comes to someone else
Well, I don't need nobody else
I don't live some fairytale life
Right now, I live my life
Ain't for no prince to set my free
My dragons were meant for me
I don't take after Rupunzel
And I don't want to be like Cinderella
I'm not Snow White
And Sleeping Beauty ain't for me
It kept me up at night
Trying to decide what's right
About what kind of person I was going to be
I decide only my dreams could set me free
I don't take after Rupunzel
And I don't want to be like Cinderella
I'm not Snow White
And Sleeping Beauty ain't for me
I used to listen the stories
About the princesses kept under lock and key
I wondered when my prince would come for me
Did I need someone to set me free?
Yeah right
Oh no
This ain't some fantasy
Welcome to reality
---- Heidi Wollman
Hands
Hands are big
Hands are small
Every hand is different
Every hand is the same
Each hand can help
Each hand can destroy
Hands spread knowledge
Hands can bring joy
We hold the future
In our hands
----Heidi Wollman
PENS
All shapes and sizes
With blue or black ink
And those lightning ones
That write silver
With colored edges
The ones that write in glitter
Pink and Orange
Green and Purple
And the two blues
The one with green glitter
In the bottom
That writes black
The orange alien
With yellow hair
The pink feathery one
With a little springy flower
The metallic ones
Of all colors of the rainbow
Pink, red, and yellow
Green, blue, and purple
All colors of inks
Cotton candy pink
Lipstick red
Sea green and lime green
Elephant gray
Midnight blues
Sky blue
Burgundy like the old van
My favorite, hot pink
Just the rainbow
In my pen pot
-----Heidi Wollman
PHOENIX
There is only one of me,
Like the phoenix
And like the phoenix,
I've been given the ability to be burnt by life and rise again
Soar upon my own wings
Alone, but never lonely
A want, a need
To protect others from my fate
And one day
May I fade into the mist and become known in my stories
----- Heidi Wollman
