More Poetic Blather

This week, as is typical for my creative writing workshop, we were given four prompts from which to choose for our homework assignment. Being the overachiever that I am (or, if only that was true), I chose two of them. The following poems are the result.  (And for simplicity's sake, I simply made the prompts my titles.)

If Walls Could Talk

If walls could talk

would it fill you with dread

the thought of revealing

all you have said?

Would you cower in shame?

Would they run blood red?

Those brutal thoughts

better left unsaid?

Or like me

would you feel free

smugly knowing

what was to be

the walls rendered mute

because you see

the words remained

inside your head?

The Choice

Yes or no?

This or that?

Peaks and valleys

or smooth and flat?

Look with joy

or derision?

Hide in shame

or chase your vision?

Sometimes it seemed

I had no choice

but now I shall

unleash my voice.

Love or hate?

Courage or fear?

Chance or fate?

I'm still here.