Naivety is a victim

Joy, trust & comfort sat on their high horse

Betrayal came along and snapped their little necks

They can’t bathe in happiness, boasting and proud,

Where jealousy lurks…

 

Loathing prods at the stomach of an unsatisfied counterpart

Who treacherously wears the white flag 

And naivety makes casualties of innocent victims 

Breeding dispirited loves 

 

By Kiri Gray © 

You Are My Wings

The feathers on my back are not my own

A reassuring frame of fortification, armouring my naivety

Escaping the denial that those others aren’t always driven by the heart

You caress the wounds of my fights until healed

With caring nobility, nonetheless anger for my strife

A bullet would sink into the flesh of your chest

Before you let me lose my life

 

You are my wings

Each breath you exhale elevates my spirit

So my soul flies on the freedom of love

And I’m free; my being is whole and endlessly free

For you took the lost shards I thought were gone

And devotedly bonded the gaps

 

By Kiri Gray ©