Let Yourself...Go

The memory has held
too long,
it's raping 
my sanity,
like a tapeworm
it eats at me
day in,
day out.

Let go,
fade away,
drift into
nothing.

a weight lifted
from shoulders
slumped
through labored
living,
head bowed
but a smile
crosses lips
cracked and dry.

Let go,
fade away,
drift into
something.

I'm new now,
refreshed like
a pre-paid
phone card,
left to find
my destiny
in the long distance
ruffle of this
region.

Let go,
fade away,
drift into
the crossing.

no weights,
no bonds,
nothing to
regret.

Just life,
so Let Go.

© Justin Frieberg, All rights reserved

You Broke Me (edited)

You broke me.

last night,
you shattered
everything
about me.
All with your
stare you know.

Those perfect green
orbs of hatred and envy
burn through my
inner core.

The way those lashes
flutter and flash
blazing contempt,
sending electric
jolts up my spine.

When that sight
beyond sight
is torn from my
soul, it takes
a piece with it.

You withered my being,
shattered my soul,
tore out my heart,

You just broke me.

© Justin Frieberg, All rights reserved

We Are the Free

As the ripples fade
in the twilight hours,
And the soldiers salute
with perfect rhythm,
Fireworks blaze
into darkened skies.

Tears of mothers
drip and dry
on hard baked asphalt,
it's a hard day
for the free,
when symbols crumble
and fall.

Rebuilt strong-holds
of family and freedom
expand and enlighten,
we are one,
and we have won,
with hearts and minds,
not guns and bombs,

We are the free.

© Justin Frieberg, All rights reserved

You broke me (rough project)

You broke me.

last night,
you shattered
everything
about me.
All with your
stare you know.

Yeah I know it's
hard to believe
that a look
could shatter someone
so completely.
I'm not sure how you
seem to do it to me.

Those perfect green
orbs of hatred and envy
burn through my
inner core.

You broke me.

© Justin Frieberg, All rights reserved