Socks by Ripley Hyde

By Ripley Hyde

 

You’re switching sides

You’re snitching. Why?

Caught red handed you insist it was a lie

You failed

Betrayal

And it’s too late to bail

Hammered in the coffin, another rusty nail

 

You had a choice and chose to cheat

You blocked yourself out, just admit it

You know what? No. Don’t even speak

Sit there, shut up and put a sock up in it

 

They’re cowards, all of them

Those who befriend Untruth

They have power, it enthralls them

Not noticing they’ve become uncouth

 

Lie after lie they spread

But once the truth has been heard

They sink into their sea of lies

And, like lead, have nothing but the seabed

 

You could have made things easy

You just had to go and do it

Don’t come crying to me man

Just take this sock and chew it

 

 

Hypocrisy

Don’t talk to me

Everything will go unheard

There’s an idea

Why don’t you show me?

After all, actions speak louder than words

 

You can’t can you, Hypocrite?

Come on now don’t you bore me

Take this sock from my mouth

Stick it in yours

Maybe then you can do it for me

 

Some people in this world just need to be muted

Their mere presence enough to leave life polluted

Though look on the bright side

It’s not a total loss

Go do some shopping

Socks are 80% off

Birth by Ripley Hyde

I’ve arrived. I’m alive
Cried before looking up at your smile
Safe in your arms
Kept away from harms way
A new life has been blessed today
My earliest memory
You were right there next to me
Holding my hand as we roamed around Tivoli
It was only us
Then others picked me up
And that’s when I met the rest of my family
I detested school, because I was away from you
I remember kindergarten, and recalled when we parted
Things were new without you
And so it started
I tearfully watched as from the gates you departed
Whenever I had a bad day
The voice was always there: “Sweetheart, it’s ok”
That comforting face above that loving embrace
Within a heartbeat I found my tears had been erased
As time went by, I saw myself change
Regardless, though, you were still the same
The most beautiful person I’ve seen since birth
The first thing I see in my life on this Earth
I owe you everything and more
For all that you’ve done for me
You are the reason why my life is everything it’s come to be
Now I wait for my turn to take care of you
And show that my love is genuine and true
The sixteenth of March 1992
Was the day you carried a baby smiling at you
All the while, your smile
Left me nothing but beguiled
No mother alive should outlive her child
“I love you mom. You are and forever will be my hero”

Ink by Ripley Hyde

By Ripley Hyde

 

Every blink of my eyes inks just another line in my memory journal I’ll write in until the day that I die

The ink from reality

Sinks into the diary

My Quill fills the pages

Turning life into memories

It feels like centuries

Since the book was first inked

I look back through the paragraphs

Remember the laughs and faces I’ve met

So many precious scenes I’ve seen

I never want them to go missing

Re-reading the writing written at the beginning…

Tearing at the sight of my ink disappearing

Memoirs lost, left in noir after the colors turned to dust

I try to will my Quill to fill the gaps

And map my way through livid verses

Nurse the curse of reversing the vivid

Fragments of my remnants, though not permanent, are still clear

I feared losing them before, but now I’m tearing no more

Locked in a state of shock, my fear has overrun

From the beginning until now I’ve been writing Chapter One