Touch me
Kiss me
Call me beautiful
Embrace me
      Til we die

And then keep
     Holding me
And never let me go

tamara peterson
may 14, 2000





People in th corner watching
     other people in another corner
Watching them be watched,
     each group wishing they were
The other;

But what both groups
Don't realize is neither
One is as grand
As what is in the
     Middle.

tamara peterson
may 14, 2000





Choking on my tears that no one can see,
Drenching my pillow case with regrets
     and worries,
My speechless figure that won't give
     me away to the ones who don't  know
'cause i don't want them to feel like
     they're the ones who drained me dry...
'cause they're not...

It's my own stupid imagination,
     my own constant worries
     my own persistant yearnings
That make me wish i could
     Be God for one whole minute
Just so things could go everybody's way -

But who am i kidding?

to J.H. and D.M.

by tamara peterson
february 1, 2000





Over-thinking
by tamara peterson
1998

You told me to stop caring so much
     And that probably hurt me
More than the way you said it,
     As i pondered on what it
Was you said,
     And as i created it into some
Lie that told me I  wasn't
     Good enough to care
About someone as special as you.
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