My Surrender

 Chrissie Hynde wrote this with Tom Kelly and Billy Steinberg, 

This poem is in response

My Surrender

I can’t believe you love me
The reason that I cry
I’m afraid to have you hold me
 In case I have to let you go
I have nothing to confess, unless,
I love you, I love you
No one ever cared, no one
ever said the kind of words you say
I have nothing to hide, unless,
I love you, I love you
I want to give in
Oh but I do
I want you to come along
and walk a mile with me
And so, just you and me,
I’d never be alone
No one’s ever said they’d
guard  me, keep me from
harm’s way,
No one’s ever said, the kind
of words you say
I want to give in,
Oh but I do
Will you take my hand
I want to give in
Because I love you,
I love you


Ellecee

Day 26 - NaPoWriMo 2023

Inspired by:

Sanaa Rizvi

Musical Inspirations

Today: I’ll Stand By You /Chrissie Hynde,Tom Kelly and Billy Steinberg, 

Soft Kill

 

According to Lori Lieberman (singer / song writer)

“behind this song was a story of a young female musician struggling to find the space where both her voice as well as her ideas would be respected and not expropriated whenever it best suited the purposes of the others.” 

Soft Kill

You steal me bit by bit

Killing me softly like

Lieberman said

She said it best

this thing that you do

Murder is murder 

Soft or not

I’m still dying 

because of you

All those love words 

You laid on me

All those touches

 My body yielded to

When all the time

it’s you, exploiting me

I need you, I need you,

I want you real

I give it away 

So you’ll feed me

Feed me still.

Ellecee

Day 25  - NaPoWriMo 2023

Inspired by:

Sanaa Rizvi

Musical Inspirations

Today: Killing Me Softly - Charles Fox, Norman Gimbel, Lori Lieberman

Folly

FOLLY

                           “Knowing was a temptation. What you don’t know, won’t tempt you.”

Margaret Atwood

Why did I come?

Knowing he would be here.

The moment our hands touched

I felt the pull

the immediate desire

to throw myself

into his arms

To snuggle into an embrace

To capture the scent

that is uniquely

him

Did he feel it, did he remember?

His eyes, his smile,

said that he did

The pressure of his touch

said that he did

His hesitancy

to let go

Wait, Wait!

Remember

 the anguish,

Remember

the pain, the tears,

the gut-wrenching grief 

Remember the afterward

Know

Succumbing is

pure folly

Ellecee

Day 5 - NAPOWRIMO 2023

Inspired by:

Sanaa Rizvi

Concept - Lust & Temtation