Clockwork

We stopped time for a couple months

When we found our touch

So electric it put a halt to the clutch 

The cadence of our hearts 

Sped up, as the the click of it’s moving parts 

Slowed down, as love was more than love between you and me

A love that was more than this earth could see

Rising to the heavens where we could truly gleam 

As the clockwork stopped under our feet 

We stopped time for a couple months 

When we felt strong against the tide 

A tide of time that we almost defeated in our stride 

We spoke in whispers of love, kisses, and touch 

So the clocks wouldn’t hear us cheating time so much

We stopped time for a couple months

Standing on the gears of the clock 

Halting its works, 

We paused time for months 

For weeks

For minutes 

You could make time stand still forever I reckon

Until it came down to the very second

In the last second,

The strength of the clockwork shed your bones, blood, and being

Far away from me, as I stood there shedding mainly tears 

Immense tears to heavy the tides of time 

So no one would be strong enough to swim against it 

Now the clocks are stronger than love to reign 

So no one can feel what I lost again

By Sarah Libassi

Eternally Unsatisfied

Spring has come too soon 
Before the birds could arrive
To sing the songs of spring
A way for life to revive
The silent ears of the unsatisfied 

This winter was too cold
Freezing winds grasp your face
And leaving frozen snow kisses on your cheeks
But your fingers are purple, senseless
How can beauty survive 
When chilling the bones of the unsatisfied 

Summer is too hot 
And autumn is not long enough 
Before the snow 
The trees are leafless, lifeless
I sometimes forget of the color the grass used to grow 

It's spring again 
And the birds have come 
Welcoming us with their songs 
But it rains too heavy 
Weighing the wings of the unsatisfied   


by Sarah Libassi

Her Journey

Every 4.2 seconds there's a new life 

With little fingers and toes 

That will overcome a mountain of hardships and strife

An uphill mountain that whips the bitter snow in your face

With a competitive wind that pulls you down 

Ripping away your dreams and claiming the race

And those little toes will clench the ground

Even when you have to restrain your screams

You will find the strength and pull around 

Before long, bitter snow will make you slip 

Then the door will slam shut when you come home 

And you will be screaming 

because the mean boy took your toy ship

The door will slam shut when you come home 

And you will be weeping 

because the cheating boy broke your heart 

Then the door will slam shut 

When your grades are falling apart 

Then the door will break when you slam it shut 

And the cracks will keep reaching long after you leave 

Through the floorboards, branching towards the hall

Like vines and they interweave

You'll be falling to the bottom of the mountain 

And angel wings wouldn't help you down 

But my arms will still be there to catch you 

And smile sweetly to soothe your tattooed frown

The uphill mountain smooths out 

And the snow melts 

As the sun breaks the cloud

Finally, you smile and turn around 

To see you left growing footprints 

Forever to be remembered 

And you'll become more than just a name in the newsprint 

Then the vines grow flowers 

They bury your old and grown fingers and toes 

So I can crutch myself to your grave 

To leave a rose

The End

These first few line's may seem to be the beginning

However this is The End 

You may think this poem transcends 

This poem is the truth 

and The End 

What is The End? 

A question that never descends 

It is when everything counts 

It's your big dismount 

To where? 

For some it's to hot air 

Other's are sent to a prayer 

The End may seem to be a despair 

Feared like a grizzly bear 

Do be aware

It's only fair 

Some describe it as a light 

Or something overnight  

A delight  

You could say a fight 

Whatever it is

You will be alright 

By Sarah Libassi

The Girl and the Earth

Twas the wind, that swept her off her feet

Along with its tranquil voice that sings

Twas the sun’s pulsating beams

That makes her dance and swing

Twas the streams

Skinny as a string

That taught her

Life can be as short as any other thing

Whilst I stand here

Wanting you

Needing you closer than near

I have longed for you through and through

Furthermore it’s crystal clear

Yet you leave me to shed a tear

If I was this tree

Would you love me?

Throughout fall, winter, and spring

And in the warm summer days you bring?

In the woods of dark shadows

You want me to follow

With your attention I wallow

Amidst the wind, sun, and streams

You’ve made me see

Earth’s eternal beauty

You are my inkling

To a world in which beauty gleams

I see love in ways I’ve never dreamed

Your steps stop

And me, you turn to

Rays of the sun come into view

And the wind quickly blew

Your beauty reworks to gold specs that flew

Specs that became the beauty of the earth I knew

In the bright hue

I realize you are the earth

And I love you 

By Sarah Libassi 

Picture taken by Sarah Libassi

What Now?

I am so done 

Done with this life and these rules 

These walls in which i am trapped no longer and these parents 

With each argument, with each rule 

The walls get thicker, and the doors are locked tighter.

My room a is chamber 

The kitchen is a hatred radiator 

The dining room is the silence manipulator 

My parents room is Hell,

In which my happiness is dispelled 

This ain't no fairy tale,

My house is a jail. 

It's the break of dawn, 

And shortly I will be gone 

Away is where I'm running

Out the door, 

And far off somewhere stunning

With empty hands, 

I ran more than a mile of land.

My steps halted and...

I blinked my eyes in recognition 

I ran off to zero civilization 

How could my cluttered mind allow 

So I ask myself,

What now? 

By Sarah Libassi

Twisted Lullaby

Hush little baby, don’t you cry

Mommy’s here, by your side

With more than lies to brim your eyes  

Begin to feel the despise

As more than Hell starts to rise

Baby, you are an angel

Soon to fall

Out of this cradle

To shatter wings so fragile

Sleep, baby, sleep

To dreams you leap

With fiery gates to reap

And blood swamps so deep

In the swamps, baby, swim deeper

Don’t cry, I know you’re not a weeper

To the Devil you are a keeper

Ignore the glimmer of this knife

Remember the last moments of your life

So hush little baby

Don’t you cry

Mommy's here to watch you die 

By Sarah Libassi 

Disclaimer: I am not against babies in any way.