The Weekend Fight

Well, we had the weekend fight
Now, it's alright 'till next Fri. night.
I want to go have fun
after all the work I've done
You will want to rest and
Blame me for my PMS
Mon. thru Fri. It's all good
or its just misunderstood
Really on trial
and in denial
More hurt to file
in that folder in my head
as you touch my shoulder
in the bed.

A Man's Tears

A tear's purpose is to mend
A tear is a gentle friend
It's blood from your soul's veins
They comfort in pain

Hardened hearts, clinched eyes
Smother the tender cries
from the child forever within
chained beneath cold blood and skin
Warmth streams down the salty stain
Dousing that inner flame
that blackened mental skies
erupting from a flame of pride

Just as rain lifts a flower from gravity strong
Your tears are not weak nor wrong.

There is nothing as tender or precious as the tears of a calloused heart.

Melanie Lynch-Evans

Love is not Time's Fool

He stole himself from me.
He sold himself to her. What began as magic
has twisted quite tragic.
Time...like the sun
evaporated our "love"
My heart became a lifeless desert.
Like a refreshing rain, he first
quenched all needs drowning me with "love" but Reality (the Sun)
came and dried it all up leaving it drier and more cracked than it was before.
It was Shakespeare that said it best: "Love is not time's fool."

Melanie Lynch Evans 1994

Freedom Has Its Prisons

Voids of intimacy
   Fill my flesh
Leaving me full
    Of emptiness.
Freedom has it's prisons.

Melanie Lynch (Evans) 1993

Android Addict

Dim lighting features a glow on your face, I wish it was about me;
but instead, it's about android technology.
Motorola Blur is a new fancy name for "Her."
She has your mind
She has your sight
She holds both your hands
It just isn't right!
Across the love seat your toes wiggle atop the chair
a flag of hope there is life ,still, in your downward stare.
Only room for one
beside the technozombie you've become.
Like look'n at you in another dimension
I can't remember your undivided attention.
She has Facebook as bait
and seductive apps I now hate
He admires her GPS system to track
but when I ask "where you been", he gives me flack!
SO, I propose a new app, the app called SLAP
Seriously Losing Android People
and it should come with a MAP
so you can hit them on the head with it
O.K. it's late and I am getting silly now. Meow.

By Melanie Lynch Evans 2011
(GEtting a little "SIC" myself)

A Family of Phones

Family of phones without the time
I can't hear you beween the lines
Wireless hearts, disconnected
Distraction and distance have corrected
A thousand times,
Our silent crimes
Of not reaching out and touching someone.

Oh, I've got your number!
I know how you really don't feel
We just pay diplomatic "respects"
And the telephone bill.

A Family of Phonies
Says, Love you, gotta go
And spend time with strangers
That they will never know.

Melanie Lynch (Evans) revised 2012

Hinder Me

Help me be blind if I hide a wicked mind
Hinder me from singing if it's a fool's rhyme
Help me close my eyes unlike the anxious child
Hinder me from arrogant victory keeping me mild

Help to cripple my dancing in the darkness of fools
Hinder my searching for the "Light" of Satan's "jewels"
Help me fail to teach hollow and deceptive trends
Hinder me from hurting the things You would mend

Help me become sick in my double- minded ways
Hinder me from praying the way a hypocrite "prays"

Help me not to decorate with fleshly desperation
Hinder me so I might illustrate Heaven's inspiration. 

Melanie Lynch-Evans Jan 29, 1992 revised 2012