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Darkness Invades


I tried to read

The greats tonight

Leonard, Angelou,

Poe, Frost…

But it is my own voice

Too loud in my ear

That sets me

Quivering – 

With loss, pain,

With fear remembered

And love…lost…

I tried to smile

Around this ache in my chest, 

but each one

Shattered

Hurting my face.

The clouds are moving 

Too fast tonight

Ghosts against

A black sky…

And the breeze 

Doesn’t invite

Doesn’t caress…

Instead… alienates.

There is a wrongness 

And I feel

Cornered

Not romanced – 

Caged…silenced…

Grief-choked.

No song tonight

On the symphony

Of wind

Notes all soured

By this aching

…this pain…

This ground under

Boot-heel feeling

…abandoned…

Alone in the dark.


Languid, half asleep, in morning hours

I hear your voice…

Half-finished conversations

rushed conclusions

hasty goodbyes…

And I turn over …

again, searching for sleep –

wondering where dreams begin

only to end again… and why.

Thoughts blow like November winds

through my mind

prickling my skin

and bidding me dig deeper

into the covers to seek

my comfort there…

to find surcease from the black

loneliness that sometimes

threatens in the early morning hours

absent your voice…

I am treading water here..

riding the black waves of fear

and despair, trying

not to drown, but

to rise up on that current

and find my hope

my center

my self

and SWIM…

One day I will

hear a noise in the

dark and will not fear…

will not stop

*breathing*

to listen for

his footsteps…

but will, instead

pause, to hear

your voice calm me…

and listen for your lullaby..

my November wind…

whistling past the window…

lulling me to sleep…

The Weight of Gold


I still feel the

absence of that

small gold band

missing from my

finger – yet the

weight of it

is so heavy

carried in

my heart.

I am drowning in

the dreams I once

held dear. Hope

of happiness and

passion and a family

unbreakable… immutable…

yet… now utterly broken

shattered beyond

any hope, any trust

any love…

I have no hope

of you anymore…

This weight on my finger…

the absence of you..

now it feels like

freedom.

Haunted?


The darkness of the

shadowed wood

calls to me…

my will-o-the-wisp..

drawing me out…

drawing me in…

I hear your voice

there…beckoning me…

Step deeper.

Go further.

Come to me…

and step by step

I comply…

somnambulant

in my capitulation

yet… somehow

willing

to walk into the dark

-unafraid.

October Sky


There is a symphony

all around me

that haunts me,

romances me,

bouys me… lifts

me to unforseen

heights and

somehow…

sits with me

in the low places…

lighting the dark

…showing me

the way home…

I hear melodies

in the grass, the leaves,

the whispering wind,

the etherial

beauty in the

song of the stars

full of longing

and an ever-

reaching hope…

dark, mysterious,

beautiful…

home.

Winter Trees


The winter-shorn

trees scratch calligraphy

against the sky and

I strain my eyes

to see what

truth lies there.

Straining my ears,

I listen to the

whispering leaves

and wait

breathless

for the words

they speak.

My heart

yearns… longs

to know their

secrets… to feel

their comfort.

To be swept away.

A brittle leaf on the

October wind.

Things I Can’t Say


All these unspoken

emotions writhe

in my chest

vying for my

attention.

Sometimes it feels

like I am drowning

in them.

I am afraid that if

I do not admit

my feelings –

at least to myself –

they may come

pouring out

-unwelcome

and unwanted…

embarassing

and painful.


I don’t know how to navigate this… How do I prepare myself for pain? How do I mourn what I have not yet lost? I can feel the emptiness threaten me already and I don’t know how to prepare myself for this agonizing ache… this absence of you… I keep trying to tell myself that I am ready for this, that this is inevitable and that I should stop mourning…that I should just be ok… Move on… I want to close my heart and stop feeling this way. I have been through enough. I have done enough. I have mourned enough. I am tired… so very tired… Can I just quit now? Please? I don’t want to keep putting my heart through the ringer. I don’t want to keep hoping only to feel like I could be put on a shelf at any time. What do I do when my heart refuses to listen to me and loves you despite all my warnings? What do I do when I find myself – again – alone at the end of the day? I was just getting the hang of alone… or so I thought… Now I FEEL lonely.. that is new. I wasn’t lonely before… I was just relieved… Now the weight of the silence and the absence of the voice I long to hear weighs on me and just hurts. Please show me the way out of here… I don’t know how much more I can take.

Romanced by Sunlight


Sunlight

streaming like rain

filtering through the trees

kissing my face like a lover

….breathless….

M


Cool invisbile

fingers of wind gently stroke

the tears from my face

All I see is you

your once familiar face

now ever pain-blurred

How to control this

deep ache felt with every beat

of a heart – once loved?