By L. Crystal Michallet-Romero
Copyright © July 11, 2006 L. Crystal Michallet-Romero
All Rights Reserved
Confetti promises
Breaking into a union
Violating a marriage
Defiling a bond
Confetti promises
Luring the unwitting
Intoxicating the drunken
Captivating the sick
Confetti promises
Written with longing
Filled with desperation
Sprinkled with perfume
Confetti promises
Torn apart
Cut into fragments
To scatter asunder
Confetti promises
Strengthening a lie
That was never meant
To be.
I am the Earth
By Crystal Michallet-Romero
Copyright © July 19, 2006 L. Crystal Michallet-Romero
All Rights Reserved
If you are the desert
And she is the ocean
Then I am the earth
That is grounded for all eternity
I am big, bold and beautiful.
I was here in the beginning
And I will be here in the end.
Though the rains and winds
Batter down upon me
I stand firm.
As the storms tear me asunder
my majestic mountain peeks still
Reach upward toward the sky
Rising high, stretching to touch
The twinkling stars and bright blue sky.
In the spring
my lush valleys are covered
With tall green grass.
My vistas are ripe and fertile
With abundant life
My mounds are warm and inviting
Enticing to the touch.
I am the earth, the renaissance woman
that fills all vision with beauty.
I am the faithful lover who never strays.
I am the mother who cradles her children
My bosoms heave with the majesty of life.
My springs and rivers flow freely
Pouring my euphoric streams downward
To fill the cold, lonely ocean
With my warm waters of life.
If you are the desert
Dry, barren and dying
A parasite that leeches life
From those nearby,
And she is the ocean
A complex, wild enigma,
Then I am the earth
Filled with abundant life and never-ending love,
And a strength that only I can give
Because I am the Earth.
