It’s Okay

2007 May 19
by sarah flanigan

 

It’s okay
push me away
if I’m a threat
to your peace of mind

It’s okay
turn your back
if I’m the cause
of some sorta flack

I’m okay
with your disrepect
your false smiles
and instant reject

Push the button
and then I’m gone
Never happened
unsung that song

Time ain’t nothin’
and neither am I
just someone
who apparently died

copyright 2007

10 Responses leave one →
  1. 2007 May 19

    I love it!!!!
    Wish you would come write at my site. You are very talented and I just loved reading as your words flowed with ease and were tasted with delight.
    Jesse

    hi jesse,
    thank you for all the nice words. please feel free to email me, if you like. my contact info is on the ‘about me’ page.
    sarah

  2. 2007 May 20

    this is good sarah…really good…i really enjoyed reading this one…not that i don’t enjoy the others mind you :wink:

    thanks, dear. i actually enjoyed writing it. ;)
    sarah

  3. 2007 May 20

    Splendid.

    as are you! ;)
    sarah

  4. 2007 May 20
    chughes permalink

    “…I’m a threat/to your peace of mind”
    “time aint nothin’/and neither am I”
    “Never happened/unsung that song”
    Great, great lines these are, creative and powerful good.
    i wish i could write good rhyme.
    ~christine

    kind of you to say, christine, but your writing is incredible. so eloquent and real. i’ll trade you my rhyme for your depth.
    sarah

  5. 2007 May 20

    I have to admit, the picture was a bit creepy.

    do you really think so? i love the picture. it’s called crying woman. i suppose for me, it’s all about capturing visually what my words are trying to say.
    sarah

  6. 2007 May 21
    alison permalink

    unsung that song. You know me and music. wow. *bites lip* more than feel this one, Sarah. Love the picture. Ali

    ali,
    that’s the ultimate compliment ‘more than feel this one’ thank you, dear.
    sarah

  7. 2007 May 22

    I felt like constructing a bubble for the protagonist to sit in during this .
    good one

    hello darling boy, where have you been? a bubble? hmm…interesting – do they get a guitar too? :)
    sarah

  8. 2007 May 25

    I really like this, the title is just a tad sarcastic..and thats great!
    Kelly

    hi kel,
    good to see you again. how is your new life treating you? yes, sarcastic – probably more than a tad, though – and that’s the way i like it. ;)
    sarah

  9. 2007 May 28

    That’s about what my wife tells me every day….

    your wife sounds very wise. ;)
    sarah

  10. 2008 April 26

    This excellent poem also sound like it could be a song. My favorite stanza is the following:

    “Push the button
    and then I’m gone
    Never happened
    unsung that song.”

    This just rocks! I wish I had written it..:)

    hello again, :)
    i had a period when everything i wrote had a sort of rap backbeat to it – this is one of those. i think i was feeling particularly attitude-ish at the time. i’m flattered that you wished you wrote it – you couldn’t say anything nicer to a writer, could you? thanks, so much.
    sarah

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