Words Spill Out by Pete V (little red riding hood read aloud txt) 📕

Tonight

crunch, crunch, crunch
snow under my boots
cold air bites my checks

come, come, come
whispers the wind to my soul
come it's beautiful

snowflakes flutter down
dip, curl, swirl
a pale moon peeks out

shh, shh, shh
sleep whispers the wind
sleep, sleep

sleep little flowers
sleep mighty trees
sleep

crunch, crunch, crunch
snow under my boots
warm glows my soul

Lost

Winding my way through this maze
Here I've been for many days
Taking paths, trying each door
Some I find I've tried before
But then a path I find that's new
My heart does race, can it be true
With wild abandon I do rush
Down this new pathway, out of this mush
Flinging each door open, peering inside
Hoping another pathway it does hide
Through this and that one I do flit
Wait here's another, rush through it
But angst I feel, suddenly I know
before down this path, I did go

I hope, I hope, I hope I'll find
The path that leads out of my mind


Patti

It chanced 'pon me, one summers night
An unexpected dinner invite
With a girl, so strange and new
I was not sure, just what to do
Except say yes and hope that she
Would see the better part of me

An angel soft, with blondish hair
A sad, wide smile, a girl so fair
With pale blue eyes that begged you come
Along a journey yet undone
An angel that had chanced to be
Sitting here, somehow, with me

We sat, we ate, then she began
To tell the story of a man
A man now in his final days
Just at the end of life's great maze
Who she would guide to his last breath
I gasped - here sat the angel of death!

I looked away, my mind did race
How did I end up in this place
What is this story 'bout a man
Was it, for me, her devilish plan
I then resolved, should it be so
To my death, I'll just not go
Yes, I would fight her, blow for blow

I steeled my gaze into her eye
Ready to fight - I would not die
Yes I would fight, year over year
But in that eye - was it a tear
Still I sat, frozen in fear

Out the story she still laid
Of that man’s life how it had played
This man, still now close to his death
And how she'd resolved till his last breath
To travel with him to the end
As nothing but a gentle friend

Such sorrow now was in that eye
'Twas all I could do not to cry
Sorrow now that she bore
Of a journey not hers before
Not sorrow of one death did find
The sorrow of one death left behind

I only could, her hand, just take
And there a solemn promise make
That when her journey is all done
and broken an angel, a fallen one
That there I'd go through what might be
To guide her gently to her sea

Oh when I chance upon death's door
My life all spent, with nothing more
All I ask, t'would be such bliss
Is for an angel, fair like this
To guide me there with one last kiss


Bump in the Night

A bump in the night
A big crash!
A big sound!
Bump in the night
But there's no one else round
Whoosh go the covers
Up over your head
Quick disappear
Fade into the bed
Peek out the corner
Trying to see
Are monsters or trolls
Coming for me?
Bump in the night
A most terrible sound
When you're alone in the dark
And there’s no
one
else
round!

Longing

I picture you sitting here
Across from me, oh so near
A breath of wind ruffles blond hair
I look in your eyes, my heart lives there
It yearns to see that which you see
And wonders what you see in me

My lips they long to kiss your face
My hands along you to trace
Exploring each curve, each nook
Whilst from you my spirit took
Your heart and held it next to mine
We pause, moments stolen from time

I wish with you to simply lie
While the light of day does die
To hold you close, dispel your fear
Whisper sweet lullabies in your ear
And in the rays of morning light
To gaze on you, my hearts delight

Our lips with passion they do meet
Our eyes, with smiles, each other greet
Our ears respond to words and voice
Our senses, our bodies, do rejoice
Our hands, they hold each other dear
Our minds stop us with doubt and fear

Instead we sit, alone, apart
Upon us the world it does impart
Responsibilities, grief, sorrow, pain
To them we bow, with naught to gain
We wonder what to do or say
But i'll just heed my heart this day

It simply says - come, let’s play.


Desperation

Through space and time
I've traveled all
Along wooded trail
where waters fall
through ancient galaxies
on comets tails
along life's great journeys
creating life's great tales

Yet nothing new, did I find
searching through mind after mind
On high hill tops
across dull, flat plain
everything just seems the same
there's nothing new, it's all been done
yet still everything's new to someone

Oh how they struggle, this human kind
to reinvent, things lost in time
and long forgotten, except by the sun
the moon, the stars, and every one
of timeless beings, who through this fun
drift aimlessly round things they've done

Oh how they laugh at the plight
The sun beams down in its delight
Mans woes and struggles they entertain
all just part of one big game
pieces different, results the same
all so complex, and yet, so plain.

Men struggle for and how they fight
for money, power, the worlds delight
but in the end, none does remain
from them it's taken, there's naught to gain
although they try, it's all in vain
to the dust they return to try again

Why then do they aspire to dream
to love, to hate, to want, to scheme
Why then continue, oh these men
do they not know they'll fail again
The strongest sword, the toughest mail
will not help them - they will fail
For in the end, their destiny
lies in the hands of beings like me

And still I drift, through time and space
here and there, from place to place
My mind unsettled, spirit not free
Nothings new, never will be
Oh that I could rest and simply drift
along a galaxies timeless rift
if only I knew, time and again
what it is that drives these men.


For Vy (Cancer)

from a face
the smile escapes
now troubles
there do lie

grief, sorrow
suffering, pain
heavy days
drag by

down moonbeams
on butterfly wings
that smile it
drifts on high

watching, waiting
for the day
when to your face
it'll fly

i picture you
missing your smile
a tear does
fill my eye

i hope
i pray
your smile returns
troubles pass on by

your smile again
to light your face
and happiness
supply


Dawn

rays of light stream up across the sky
night is over, day is nigh
the morning dove sings out it's cry
get up, get up, the day passes by

buds swell, petals stretch
morning rays of sun to catch
colours burst from their cache
infinite beauty, the petals do latch

dew melts in the first hour
bees flit from flower to flower
life emerges to fully devour
beauty increasing hour by hour

infinite beauty, in the soft dew
the beauty of dawn across a meadow new
all this beauty reminds me anew
of the beauty I see when I look at you


Depression

falling
tumbling down
down
down
twisting
turning
spiralling

nothing stops

the fall

i plummet

down, down
dark depths
deafening quiet
pounding heart
down
down
deep
deep into
the abyss

i plummet

deep pit
finally
bottom
look up
daylight vanishes

with it
vanishes
the will
to carry on

to be

i’ve fallen

days merge
in darkness
time drags
pain
night rules
crushing weight
all is darkness
can’t breathe
deafening beats
fill silence
a heart

my heart

despair

i’ve fallen

collapse

but wait
a glint
way above
light
climb
walls step
pit deep
climb
quickly

i fall

i’ve fallen

darkness

despair

rise up
try
try again
slowly
slipping
slowly
up
up
over the edge
and

daylight

look back
down
into the
pit
only to find
to see

a pot hole

Depression lies.

War and Pestilence

mist covers the water
i swim forward, hoping for the shore
mist parts, shore appears
there stands death

waiting

the water turns to blood
deaths outstretched hands grab for mine
unseen hands pull me back
a voice echo’s softly in the silence
not yet, not today...

i awake
my parents still dead
my younger siblings counting on me
the oldest surviving member of my family
we need food
water
shelter

we need

i struggle through the day
lie awake in my makeshift bed
not wanting to sleep
i know what dreams await
i know my future

i am 14 years old

Publication Date: 12-08-2009

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