Jen Waters
4 min readDec 18, 2021

Art by jen

What’s the point

In living when you are only going to die

What is the point in love if it makes you cry

What is the point in saying hello

If we have to say goodbye

I don’t know anything

Even less when I take my time

I wish I could be more for you

Or come up with the perfect rhyme

That’s just the way it goes

This circle of life

And although it makes no sense

I just wanted to be the perfect wife.

Art by jen, portait of Elsa Lanchester

Battles waged

Battles waged in clouds of smoke

Pouring from the mouth of dragon lords

Casualties mounted on iron horses

Race to death in deafening sound

Writers clutching blood stained rags

Placing markers when the battle lags

flicking images placed in cast

Who knows nor remembers the wars of past

The desolate landscape painted black

And smeared with mud from a soldiers tomb

The flames devour the common ground

At point blank range

They pulled their trigger on the hands of doom

Machines break the earth pushing it aside

From out of the cracks pour pestilence of genocide

Faces stained by blood they spill

A costly price for just one hill

No one knows the reasons why

Only hope that they don’t die

The night sees little rest

The enemy can see their unwelcome guest

As tables turn return the worst

Iron caskets burning with thirst

Swallow earth and man

like grains of sand

For all to see in no mans land

5x9 wall mural acrylic on canvas. Art by jen

Some day

Some days you never want to see

Some anniversaries you never want to celebrate

Some places you never want to visit

Some times it’s just that way

Unavoidable call it what you will

It just happens to be me today 4/8/19

It came over me in a wave

I could not hold back a tear

To bear the weight of these memories

From each passing year

My heart feels heavy

my body is tingling from my head to my toes

I don’t know the future

no one really knows

I just want to say I love you,, again

But that’s how it goes

Art by jen ,copy of serenity by Melissa Calais

Through my eyes you see

through my ears you hear

through my mouth you speak

through my hands you create

For only through you are all things made possible

For without you nothing exists

Don’t confuse being sensitive for being weak

You may find out how wrong you are.

Sincerely

your humble servant

Art by jen

Only cold can afford bitter

Images raced through my mind of a person lost in a snow storm ,on foot and wondering how she got there. Only to see a distant light flicking and setting off to find it. After a while she began to think that it was an mirage. Tired and cold falling to the ground she drifted off to sleep. Suddenly she heard her mother yelling at her to get up. So disconcerning that it startled her awake. She was nearly buried in snow, sat up and heard the howling of dogs. Wolves she thought oh no! The light was much closer now and so was the sound. Suddenly she was lifted out of the snow ,she heard a man yell “I found her. “ His face was bright and warm. My god! it must be God.

A story of redemption after a long battle.

And it is good.

the end.

A Dedication to all and

In loving memory of my dearest Richard ,my love, my all

I will love you with my all my heart forever and ever

Till that day I hold you again in my arms. Godspeed

Art by jen

That is the conclusion of Entrails to Prophecies

Thank you for taking the time to read this as well all the wonderful comments.

all the best and my love

jen

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