I'm soaring like a bird upon this high
surrounded by the beauty of your love
My breath inhales a calm and then I sigh
through passing clouds and happiness above
But with a word or lack of one I crash
unable to remain in flight alone
I close my eyes and will for it to pass
But sadness overwhelms me and I'm done
My wings lose strength and fold to mask my heart
while gravity pulls swiftly at my height
The force begins to rip my mind apart
Helplessly I fall far out of your sight
When I finally slam into the ground
I lay broken with no one around
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Saturday, December 16, 2006
Viewing
Her hands disturbed me the most
Not the ghostlike eerie sleep
imposed upon her frozen shell
Her mouth fell slightly at the corner
as if she were only dreaming
unaware of people around her
sighing and weeping
But I could tell at once
life had truly taken leave of her
When I lightly brushed her skin
and the lifegiving, sustaining blood
had simply vanished within
Not the ghostlike eerie sleep
imposed upon her frozen shell
Her mouth fell slightly at the corner
as if she were only dreaming
unaware of people around her
sighing and weeping
But I could tell at once
life had truly taken leave of her
When I lightly brushed her skin
and the lifegiving, sustaining blood
had simply vanished within
Goodnight to Dreams
I said goodnight to you
but the night refused
to grant me rest
under such unhappy news
The dream of family and hearthside calm
has turned to nightmarish places
where final lines are drawn
And the peaceful home
I have desperately sought
is simply a broken branch
of the twisted oak tree
high above the ground
where old fruit rots
but the night refused
to grant me rest
under such unhappy news
The dream of family and hearthside calm
has turned to nightmarish places
where final lines are drawn
And the peaceful home
I have desperately sought
is simply a broken branch
of the twisted oak tree
high above the ground
where old fruit rots
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Different Reasons
Remember that sweet summer breeze in June
Just as the sun would set upon our day
That comforting presence within the room
While we talked and I watched our children play
An exclamation point to our goodbye
Would cleverly mask life’s uncertainty
But the growing softness in your replies
Easily soothed my insecurities
Time rushes away with our past in hand
I scrape your cold dinner into the trash
Calendars remind you to meet demands –
But never the ones that I gently ask
Does it all disappear due to seasons
Or will I leave for different reasons
Just as the sun would set upon our day
That comforting presence within the room
While we talked and I watched our children play
An exclamation point to our goodbye
Would cleverly mask life’s uncertainty
But the growing softness in your replies
Easily soothed my insecurities
Time rushes away with our past in hand
I scrape your cold dinner into the trash
Calendars remind you to meet demands –
But never the ones that I gently ask
Does it all disappear due to seasons
Or will I leave for different reasons
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