Tag Archive: loneliness


Early Mornings


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…

She Smiles


She smiles the way

Only a girl with 

A secret can smile…

A smile just for her –

From her – 

Not to be shared

Or given away 

To anyone else.

She smiles the way

Only a girl with

A secret can smile…

One that accompanies 

The music in her

Heart…that only

She knows the 

Words to.

She smiles the way

Only a girl with 

A secret can smile

….privately…

Feeling the invisible

Fingers of wind

Trace her lips,

Her shoulders,

Her spine…

She smiles the way 

Only a girl with

A secret can smile…

With a deep joy

Often tinged in a sadness

That is as welcome as

An old friend.

In the empty days,

In the quiet hours,

In the loneliness

That echos in the

Corridors of her mind

….she smiles….

Waiting for Pain


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.