Poetry by Melodie Yvonne

Originally published online April 28, 2017 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Sept — available here

I Run by Melodie Yvonne

I run ‘cause I think if I’m smooth enough I can run into your arms
I smile ‘cause I think if I’m cute enough I’ll win you with my charms
But all I really know is what you make me see
That my special kinda crazy’s not as fucked as it could be

I run ‘cause I think if I’m same enough you might run right back to me
I want you by my side but when you’re here I just want free
I love your every wrinkle, I swim in your big eyes
But I know that you can hurt me ‘cause I’m beggin’ for your lies

I run from you like clockwork as you run right through my mind
I run from you while prayin’ you are runnin’ right behind
I run around just like a foolish chicken with no head
And I run around all crazy lookin’ way too far ahead

I run ‘cause I think if I stop too long I’ll realize what I’ve done
I run ‘cause I know if I stand too still I’ll hate what I’ve become
But mostly I just run from what you told me not to be
When you said don’t settle down, dear, or you’ll end up just like me

Don’t ever settle down, dear, or you’ll end up just like me

I run

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Originally published online April 27, 2017 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Sept — available here

Falling Up by Melodie Yvonne

Don’t turn me on, I won’t shut off
Melodramatic more often than not
Too much passion’s all I got
Apathetic I am not

Take more shit than all you got
Get back up is what I was taught
White lies save your heart a lot
But truth is all I’ve ever sought

When I look up into the sky
I let go all your stupid lies
Stayin’ high to get me by
‘cause this whole world just makes me cry

Can’t turn you on, you won’t shut off
Melodramatic more often than not
Too much passion’s all you got
Apathetic you are not

Take more shit than all I got
Get back up is what you was taught
White lies save my heart a lot
But truth is all you’ve ever sought

When you look up into the sky
you let go all my stupid lies
Stayin’ high to get you by
‘cause this whole world just makes you cry

Don’t turn us on, we won’t shut off
Melodramatic more often than not
Too much passion’s all we got
Apathetic we are not

Take more shit than all they got
Get back up is what we was taught
White lies save their hearts a lot
But truth is all we’ve ever sought

When we look up into the sky
we let go all their stupid lies
Stayin’ high to get us by
‘cause this whole world just makes us cry

Stayin’ high to get us by
‘cause this whole world’s just one big lie
Stayin’ high to get us by
‘cause all we are is one big lie

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Originally published online April 25, 2017 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Sept — available here

See Me For Me by Melodie Yvonne

See me for the me I am when I am all alone
See not just the me I was, but see the me that’s grown
Don’t just love me for the things you think that I could be
Love me for me even when I’m lost and I can’t see

Don’t put me on a pedestal ’cause I’ll just fall right off
Don’t elevate me for all of these things that I am not
Just leave me down on level ground so you can look and see
Just what I am and all the little things that make me me

See me for the me I am when I am all alone
See not just the me I was but see the me that’s grown
Don’t just love me for the things you think that I could be
Love me for me even when I’m scared and I can’t breathe

Don’t flatter me with compliments, I’ve heard them all before
I guess the thing I’m looking for is just a little more
And I can’t take this constant passionless dull apathy
You gotta find your happiness, it can’t all come from me

See me for the me I am when I am all alone
See not just the me I was, but see the me that’s grown
Don’t just love me for the things you think that I could be
Love me for me just enough to know to set me free

Oh please love me just enough to know you need to set me free

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Originally published online April 17, 2017 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Sept — available here

Time Is Fleeting by Melodie Yvonne

Time is fleeting, you’re mistreating all I have to give
The way you steal my minutes is a menace I forgive
You think that you’re all busy, busy is as busy does
And you just can’t see that I’ve not got the time to call this love
I’m walking ’round in circles almost every single day
And I’m counting down the moments ‘til this all just goes away

Stealing all my minutes just to love me every second
Doesn’t mean you get me and it doesn’t mean you get it
So one day I will walk away and we will be no more
And I pray by then you’ve taken all you need from me and more

Time is fleeting and you’re reading too much into things
I’m reigning fool and made the rules in all your foolish games
It’s not a fight it’s just my life and you’re not fitting in it
My heart’s just not for sale and there’s no wager left to win it
I settle in the solace of your arms most every day
But this apathetic settling is what’s pushing me away

Stealing all my minutes just to love me every second
Doesn’t mean you get me and it doesn’t mean you get it
So one day I will walk away and we will be no more
And I pray by then you’ve taken all you need from me and more

Time is fleeting and it’s almost time for me to end this
The road is closed, I’ve lit the bridge, and we have neared the finish
It’s time to see me now for what I am when I am with you
A trophy mate, a secret fate, a backdoor bugaboo
Now I confess that we were blessed and got the best we needed
But now it’s time to walk away and let me have my freedom

Stealing all my minutes just to love me every second
Doesn’t mean you get me and it doesn’t mean you get it
So one day I will walk away and we will be no more
And I pray by then you’ve taken all you need from me and more
Yes I pray by then you’ve taken all you need from me and more
Oh I pray by then you’ve taken all you need from me and more

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Originally published online April 4, 2017 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Sept — available here

Honey Baby by Melodie Yvonne

You understand without explaining
Vibes of comfort in the air
You spend no time complaining
Living life is all you care

You don’t accept the passionless
Surrounded by the mad
Each step in life’s a dance to you
The best you’ve ever had

You’re my end and my beginning
You’re the sun that lights my moon
You’re the cherry on my sundae
And the music in my tune

You’re the bass clef to my treble
You’re the worker in my bees
And I’m cravin’ me some honey
So hand it over baby please!

You’re everything I want to be
And not a penny less
You’re all the good I see in me
But minus all the mess

You’re everything I wanted
Though I really didn’t know
Now it’s too late for the taking
And your absence makes me grow

You’re my end and my beginning
You’re the sun that lights my moon
You’re the cherry on my sundae
And the music in my tune

You’re the bass clef to my treble
You’re the worker in my bees
And I’m cravin’ me some honey
So hand it over baby please!

This life is lived in rhythms
All dictated by the moon
And although the tide must leave now
It always comes back soon

So I guess I’ll sit in silence
Counting blessings while I wait
Longing for my honey baby
Playing trust games with my fate

You’re my end and my beginning
You’re the sun that lights my moon
You’re the cherry on my sundae
And the music in my tune

You’re the bass clef to my treble
You’re the worker in my bees
And I’m cravin’ me some honey
So hand it over baby please!

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Originally published online April 1, 2017 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Sept — available here

The World Spins On by Melodie Yvonne

Nobody here is right or wrong
And on and on the world spins on
You wanna know why I’m singing my song?
‘Cause on and on the world spins on
Not much time left ‘til we are gone
And on and on the world spins on
So don’t you fret just sing your song
‘Cause on and on the world spins on

Livin’ this life for the masses
Schoolin’ you from skippin’ classes
You can’t touch me I’m above it
Teach me lessons I’m gonna love it
You can’t keep me in detention
Guess I never thought to mention
I’ve not got too, many fucks left
Life is not a fucking contest

All my life I’ve gave up something
Come what may, I regret nothing
But I’ll always ask forgiveness
We all got a shade of wickedness
Fret not for who’s truly evil
On this plane we all are equal
So just love with all your soul
And let this gorgeous life unfold

Nobody here is right or wrong
And on and on the world spins on
You wanna know why I’m singing my song?
‘Cause on and on the world spins on
Not much time left ‘til we are gone
And on and on the world spins on
So don’t you fret just sing your song
‘Cause on and on the world spins on

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Originally published online March 23, 2017 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Sept — available here

Hope by Melodie Yvonne

Systematic revocation of your rights to me
Will be the very thing I need to set my heart ache free
Substitution of your face is just a deferred pain
Hope I will and hope I won’t be seeing you again

Fading like a back to future picture in my hands
Invisible from chemicals that bring about our end
Hiding from you in the most precocious kind of way
But the prisms forming in my eyes are giving me away

Hope I will and hope I won’t be seeing you again
I don’t know how to end it so our story never ends
My heart can’t breathe when you are near so we just can’t be friends
So I hope I will and hope I won’t be seeing you again

I stumble in the dark without your soul light monkey fuck
Not looking yet I’m finding and I’m running out of luck
I hope and wish and pray for you to save me from myself
But I’ve cut you off and now I’m hurting everybody else

Just going through these motions and I’m stuck inside my head
Still analyzing every single word you ever said
Replaying every moment through the movies in my mind
But I’m really not quite sure what I’m expecting me to find

I hope I will and hope I won’t be seeing you again
I don’t know how to end it so our story never ends
My heart can’t breathe when you are near so we just can’t be friends
So I hope I will and hope I won’t be seeing you again

My heart still quickens as I picture your sweet angel face
Looking in your eyes I thought I’d finally found my place
But both our souls are broken, we’ll not be there in the morn’
And that string that tethers me to you has finally gone and torn

I hope I will and hope I won’t be seeing you again
I don’t know how to end it so our story never ends
My heart can’t breathe when you are near so we just can’t be friends
So I hope I will and hope I won’t be seeing you again

Oh I hope I will and hope I won’t be seeing you again

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