Fifty Shades of Funny

  Once after an appointment at the hospital I was waiting for valet to bring me my car. I was sitting on a bench next to a voluptuous Black woman with a friendly demeanor and I noticed she was reading Fifty Shades of Grey.  Having read the series--yes, it is a series--I struck up a conversation.
I told her I envisioned Robert Pattinson as the lead male character, and she told me that she could see that; and that she really liked the book thus far.

"Yeah, you really should finish the series," I said." The second and the third book are even better and there's so much more to this story than just kinky sex."

"Oh, I will," she said enthusiastically. "My pastor's wife gave me all three books and highly recommended them."

 

 

Olivia McGuire

Passion Plenty

 

 

 

 

smell the fragrance in my hair

look in my eyes

lose yourself there

for I want you to kiss me

and take delight

here I am yours

today and tonight

do not be dismayed by

the scars on my skin

look at my smile

and beauty within

do not look at my age

and think me old

remember the love we

strongly hold

for we are still young,

though we're not twenty

but there's romance here

and passion plenty

 

 

Olivia McGuire

 

 

 



God Responds to the Butterfly

 

 

 

"God, " said the butterfly

I cannot fly

I cannot fly

My wings have been broken

by a monster

and he stole my colors too.

How will I ever reach the sky?

And will I ever have my

pretty colors back?"

 

"Do not cry my precious one,"

said God

 "for my angels and I

will carry you

and dip you in rainbows"

 

 

Olivia McGuire

 

 



I Am A Butterfly

 

 

 

I am a butterfly

looking at the sky

but cannot fly

 

my lovely wings

are broken

and all my pretty colors

are fading before me

 

I am a butterfly

looking at the sky

I cannot fly

I cannot fly

I cannot fly

 

But I'll always try

because that is my nature

I am a butterfly

 

 

 

Olivia McGuire

 



You Can Have My Heart

 

 

 

You can have my heart
if you don't mind that it's worn
and that it has many cracks,
several of them deep.
You can have my heart
if you are willing to try to mend it,
and keep it safe.



Olivia McGuire



Cold Rainy Night With You

 

 

 

I imagine when you're finally in my life

 that we're staying in on a cold rainy night

and I'm in my warm pajamas

 

we're eating pizza

 listening to music

 talking about life

and before midnight

we make love

 

 

Olivia McGuire



 

 

Lupus, You Make Me Sick

 

 

 

I went to see the doctor today

He gave me some bad news

talking about chemo and nasty other drugs
I started crying in his office
but held most of my tears back
because I'm lady-like like that

God, I don't want to go through
this shit again
feeling bloated, feeling sick, and feeling bad
Oh what happened to summer
it was such a blast
but I always knew
 feeling good wouldn't last

Lupus, you keep taking from me
but Bitch, you've already taken all I've got!
Now you're back with a vengeance
to try to put me in my place.
You make me fucking sick
--literally--
Please get out my face.

 

I'm so damn sick of tests
needles
and medication
I'm sick of chronic illness
and its horrendous frustrations.

Lupus, you make me sick
you make me sick
you make me sick
and I'm-- sick-- of you


Olivia McGuire



All Is Fair

 

 

They say all is fair in love and war.

 

Bullshit.

 

Nothing is fair in love and war.


Olivia McGuire