My Funeral

I’m the one who’s here to mourn—

And you seem like you’re fine.

Though all these thoughts have held me down

You and I have reached sublime.

We’re humans, and we feel the world,

It dances round our toes

With leaps and twists and grand jetés—

Emotion is what we chose.

You’re unwelcome here, near my crying face,

Because my heart can’t take the weight.

You’ll keep your place and make them laugh,

But I’ve never believed in fate.

I’ve seen it all, and I held back—

The world is not for me.

I’m ready to hold all it is to my heart,

And maybe that can make me see.

The mask I wear is a child’s game,

Indulgent of my fears—

I’ve got my love, I’ve got my shame,

And I’ll smile for all the mirrors.

The right is earned, so privilege it is—

To don my shattered face,

I’m here to mourn, at this funeral,

So leave—this is my place.

An Ode to the Lost Boy

If I never see your face again,

I’m not sure what I’ll do.

Your timidity to smile at me

Was charming to a fault.

Each word you spoke gave me

A spark of something to be learned—

And then again I felt so young

When glancing at your gaze.

I sat right there at the info desk,

Hoping the second shoe would drop.

It didn’t though, and you made me laugh—

With your charming, witty smile.

Romance is my aim in life

And you fit every qualm of mine.

I hope I did the same for you

When you walked into my life.

But then you walked right out again

With a child upon your shoulders.

You smiled back and I held my tongue

When I should have shouted out!

O sweet boy, with a thimble kiss—

Let’s fly to Neverland—just us!

We’ll swim all day and we’ll scream all night

While the lost boys take our gold.

So take me away to Neverland,

You stranger, you fiend, you friend.

I’m waiting here, so patiently,

While you figure out our end.

O stranger who I want to meet,

I saw your face and fell.

Come back to me, and take me home

To the place we both want to go.

(Inspired by the stranger I met at work today. Let's just get married, okay?)

Jane Bear

I think I'm pretty funny...

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Love, Sarai

To Everyone Else (Again)

Here's a fun little print of the last lines of the poem "To Everyone Else"

Hope you enjoy! Feel free to use it anywhere you like

Love, Sarai

Let's Be the Naked

I want to know what makes you,

You.

Here’s a bone

Here’s a breath

Here’s the mighty sinew!

Let’s be the naked,

Be the brave, and the bold.

I’ll see all the fears that

Have made you feel old.

Shed all convention,

Let the loving flag fly!

All the world is your stage

When you’re learning to cry.

Let’s be the naked,

Be the bold, be the brave.

You’ve given so much,

Now it’s our turn to save.

I’ll see each old scar

And I’ll know of the new.

I’m finding out now

What a friend ought to do.

When you’re fighting for air

At the edge of a boat

Standing like you’re not scared,

When I know that you’ll jump.

Let’s be the naked!

Be the scared and the ready!

I’ll see all I see,

I don’t care if it’s messy.

Let’s be the naked!

Don’t you cover in shame!

For all the reasons you’re scared,

It’s not you who’s to blame.

Let’s not cover up

All that you have to share.

Let’s be the naked;

Let’s be real, if you dare.

Let’s be the naked.

Just be brave, just be bold.

You Are My Sunshine

From now on

You’ll just be another

Music box

To me.

“You Are My Sunshine”

Because that’s what

It comes down to.

You were the

Sun and the moon

The stars and the rains

The comets and the shooting stars

The planets and their shadows

And the beating of my heart.

You’ll forever be the

Crank-style box

As it sings our moments.

From now on,

You’re just a piece of

Metal making music—

And I’m finally okay

With that.

Halo

I miss my friend—

Is he in there somewhere?

And I miss the way you cared.

Life’s a dream when the color’s up—

All the world will stop and stare.

And that’s the worst!

I know how you think—

It’s their prying eyes

That make you compromise

The feelings I know that you feel.

An open shut case on my

Head and my heart are the

Most civilized of all.

That’s not how it worked

And I’m calling your bluff—

Don’t pretend that this isn’t a wall.

Run along coward

And try not to think.

You’ve gotten so tangled in this.

Blame I won’t share in our timely demise—

It’s your fault that there’s something to miss.

Running makes sense for someone like you.

A man who has shame to spare.

You weren’t alone,

But you made it that way

When you decided life isn’t to share.

Your halo was right there in my sight

And no one that I knew could compare.

But halos fall and that’s not all.

Please remember, it was you—

You’re the one who made me feel small.