Poetry by - Ashley E Berendt - Send your comments to - Asht0ash@aol.com - Poetry - http://maxpages.com/nichola/Ashley_E

Run away now, run from here
Get away from desperate lands and desperate people
'Cause kneeling in cringing agony isn't enough
So run for your life
Run away to your sacred place
To a corner in your mind
Where we can't be bothered
Run fast and hard 'cause it's catching up
And when it does and runs you down
Rips out the corner in your mind
Look at all the dying people
Look at them screaming and pleading and crying and bleeding
Run away from here
Run as fast as you can
'Cause thats all you know how to do

Sail away now
Sail out into the distance
Into the huge open sky
Float out into the sun
There's peace at the edge of sea
Come sail away with me
Pick your flower and draw your dream
Take a moment to remember the sea
Rust stains the silver creatures
Lick away our blood and show us your beauty
In the end we will see what you really are
Look out now
Storm clouds are coming
Here to wash out the fear
And replace it with real pain
Peace falls from the closing sky

Ashley E Berendt

Dedicated to My Friends
By Ashley E. Berendt

We gather together
now in this time we thought was peace
what I thought was peace
I have yet to prove
to even myself

The three of us sit
together we gather on the steps,
waiting what will happen next

Awaiting whoever comes to join us,
to be entertained we cannot be.
never happy, not angry
just the constant inbetween
that breaks us all

For how to use this life
we wait to find out
as if it will just come to us
And as we sit there
on the steps we realize
I knew all along

Dedicated to Everyone Else

Relapse. I'm falling back to the other side, with my many other sides. I
don't want it to be this way. I often wonder if we were meant to be like this;
so undefined, misunderstood. so alone.
That I want to scream it into your face! I am so alone! Awake while asleep,
asleep while awake. always in a state between. A thick glaze between me and
the rest of the world. Looking within me for something solid, concrete. But
there is nothing there. so unstable...without a care, there's no one there.
They all stare. Bored with this. Tired of you. Insparational experience; it's
not enough. and still there is no one there.

Dedicated to The Dark Ones

A dark life
Hidden behind dark walls
In the dark house
With these dark minds
We lock ourselves in
Close the doors tight
But somehow you always make your way in to me.

The rain falls
Satin calls
Bitter copulations so belated
Between the bars of the Dark House
We watch them suffer
Ohh, the wicked shrew!
She petitions for more

A gut wrenching stench
Of past years so livid
In the Dark House
Where not even
Ashen women
And incongruous men
Can stop the
Romantic, evil beauty
Of our dark, twisted minds

Dedicated to The Sick

I lay where i fell on the floor, pulse so strong is what keeps me awake. why
does my head hurt like this?! i lay and stare for days for nothing to
happen.my blood turns to ice, and life freezes into a wheel that
never turns.

Ashley E. Berendt

Like a dark cloud
spreading over me
makes me sick
but it's all i know
so much pain
so much sorrow
but it's all i know
oh it makes me sick
it hurts so bad
but it's all i know
cause i lost the idea
of love and friendship
so long ago
like a smack in the face
you hit me with wretched force
leaving my face
beautifully bruised
and this sweet love
that i like to say is true
is what i need
and what i thought i need
is too much for me to contain
cause every livid punch
every sharp scar
makes me want this more
because it's all i know.
desecrate me
please dont waste me.
all this precious time
cause it'll all be over soon
and your all i know

Visitors: 05298

Page Updated Thu Apr 29, 1999 6:39am EDT