A Good Nurse

A good nurse quietly checks on you while you're sleeping.

A good nurse holds your hand and lets you know

you are going to get you through it. 

A good nurse offers to tuck you in your blankets.

A good nurse sees you are tired

and will help you with tasks like brushing your hair.

A good nurse lets you feel cared for, 

Not every nurse is a good nurse,

so I appreciate the ones who are 

because a good nurse is a

 blessing from God. 

Olivia McGuire

Over You

I want to be inspired.

 I love to be admired.

But honestly I'm tired.

 Oh don't you know I tried.

 I hate the way you lied.

 Here's to tears I cried.

And I died a thousand times

over you. 

Olivia McGuire

His Eyes

I do not care if my love to be

has blue eyes, green eyes, or dark eyes.

All I want is to be able to see
 the sea in them.

Olivia McGuire

Our Apartment

Sometimes when the rain doesn't cease 

I visit our high rise apartment through reverie 

It is beautiful there.

Our Arcadia doors provide us visions
of blue Arizona skies and desert mountains.

Sometimes in the morning
I make French toast

and serve us on the terrace. 

In the evenings we are often wrapped in each other's 

embrace on our white couch

or we're warm in bed with my feet

touching your legs

I am sick with lupus

but we are young and beautiful,

still full of hope,
and our love feels like it will never run out,
that no argument or trial could ever destroy us. 

I look around at our lovely things,
 the heavenly view

and at our lovely little life

and left incredulous

that this place is no longer ours

--that this life is no longer ours.

So I can only visit it with the one key I have left,
my heart
and there you are forever-beautiful
and happily waiting to see me.

Olivia McGuire

Magic World

I live in a magic world

a world of make believe

in my magic world

you will never leave

we live in a house

by the blue green sea

I'll stay pretty and healthy

you'll never tire of me 

we have two kids 

one surfs

the other plays guitar

we both anticipate

they'll be superstars 

we hardly ever fuss

we hardly ever fight

and when we're feeling hot

we tell the kids goodnight

I wish this world was true

and not inside my head

so I go to bed without you

and swallow pills instead

Olivia McGuire