Poem: The Middle of Nowhere

In the middle of nowhere 

Far from the main road

A girl hides 

From a relationship gone cold

A prisoner of his words

Her heart an empty shell 

She makes up lies 

To cover up the pain 

She doesn’t want to be 

In the middle of nowhere 

She wants to be in a place

Where her heart is whole 

She can’t even trust herself

To make the right choices

At this moment in time 

So who can she trust?

To get her back to the main road

To a life she used to have 

Before it was ruined 

By the one she thought was the one 

Written February 23, 2025

© 2025 by Lena Kovadlo. Use with permission only. 

Poem: My Life

I don't have what it takes to make it

No matter how much I try to fake it 

There’s this feeling and I can’t shake it 

And this fear I just can’t break it 

It’s crazy 

It’s hazy 

It’s not that I’m lazy 

I’m just like a daisy 

Can’t make up my mind 

My life’s undefined 

I’m falling behind 

Keep hitting rewind

Instead of fast forward 

And me moving onward 

It seems I’ve gone toward 

A life of a coward 

Instead of progressing 

I’m constantly stressing 

And hope for a blessing 

Don’t want to be guessing 

I’m falling, I’m sorry 

I’m making you worry 

One moment of glory 

I’ll rewrite my story 

It may take a while 

To dig through the pile 

But life is a trial 

And filled with denial

You take it

You break it

And you fake it 

Till you make it 

Written February 4, 2025

© 2025 by Lena Kovadlo. Use with permission only.

 

Poem: Words Unseen

I fill an empty page 

With words from the heart

Only to have them be invisible 

To those that scroll through their feed

My words unseen

They may as well not exist 

Written May 28, 2024

© 2024 by Lena Kovadlo. Use with permission only.

Poem: Tired

I am tired of this place
And my mere existence
I'm tired of pretending
Like things will be different
I don't have it in me
To change what is happening
There is no more spark
Or the drive to do anything
So here I find myself
Inside these four walls again
Letting the days go by
Not really living life
What is the point then
When all the hope is gone
Maybe the time has come
For me to say so long
To the one that doesn't try
To spread her wings and fly

Written December 19, 2022

© 2022 by Lena Kovadlo. Use with permission only.

Poem: Tick-Tock

The clock on the wall
Goes tick-tock, tick-tock
Am I going to fall
Down below on the rock

It's a slippery slope
Up ahead on this trail
But today is my hope
That somehow I'll prevail

Do I have it inside me
To conquer and win
Or is my fate to be
To be dormant within

The clock on the wall

Goes tick-tock, tick tock

I need to stand tall 

So I won't get stuck

It seemed I'm still young 

But now I'm almost forty

A third of life gone 

But where is my glory

What have I achieved

That's worthy of praise

The things I have grieved

The things yet to chase

Don't yet know my story

Don't yet know my ending
Don't want to be sorry

Or be left pretending

As if everything's fine

When in fact I am lost

On this journey of mine

With uncertainty's cost 

Do I even belong here

And what is my worth

In this world so unclear

In my life on this earth

Written September 19, 2022

© 2022 by Lena Kovadlo. Use with permission only.

Poem: Nameless

Buried underground you are nameless
No way of knowing where you are from a distance
Only standing beside you
Can I see exactly where you are
But how do I know the exact spot of your existence
When yours is like many others surrounding you
When will you finally get the headstone you deserve
So I can visit you without searching for you
Among a colony of those that have taken up residence down below
And panicking when you are nowhere to be found

Written August 30, 2021  

© 2021 by Lena Kovadlo. Use with permission only.

Poem: Alone in an Empty House

She finds herself alone in an empty house

As darkness settles in outside

She is no longer a child

Yet every noise she hears in the silent night

Fills her with anxiety and fear

Unable to fall asleep

She tightly hugs her plush dog and cries

Trying not to let screams escape her

There is no ghost or monster to be found

But there might as well be

Because she doesn’t feel safe inside these walls

And worries that her story

May not have a happy ending

Written April 21, 2016

© 2016 by Lena Kovadlo. Use with permission only.

Poem: Lost In The Moment

Soft whisper in the wind
The day of hidden clouds
Just the weightless flow of tranquility

Written Spring 2005 

This poem is featured in my book Pieces of Me

© Copyright 2005 Lena Kovadlo. Use with permission only.