I’m Back

I’m Back

Where intimacy was a lie,

Where promises are broken,

Where love will always deny,

Where cruel words are spoken,

Where memories bring only pain,

Where hope lived but does not now,

Where hunger comes to rule again,

Where strangers ask who and why and how,

Where words, like forever, fail,

Where letters of feelings are burnt,

Where rosy cheeks grow cold and pale,

Where lessons of sorrow are learnt,

Where holding hands and drying tears

Are forgotten by unhappy hearts,

Where loving looks become fears

Where from all that mattered departs.

“As the Sun Wakes”

As the sun wakes,
Thunder and lightning
Blanket his face
And shut his shining.

Might as well!
This day will be the same:
Where I suffer our love –
And you forget my name.

I Still Survive

I survived a drunk father
Who tried to beat me to his will;
School bullies tried to knock me down;
But life found me standing still.

I wondered at my difference then –
But I knew it couldn’t be a flaw;
If I was honest with myself,
Who cares what another saw?

I saw the death of those I loved;
Life tried to crush hope from me;
I stared death twice in the eye;
So she smiled and let me be.

Still she had her due and
Yet she takes; but I know now:
While life rests in my heart,
She’ll stay content on my brow.

So I give in to life each time
And i let love love him so;
And death reaches in deep
When he watches love go.

I survive the parting.
I digest all of the pain.
But I know I am human;
And it’ll happen again.

So, as the sadness envelops,
Every fibre of my being,
I know I still survive, for
It’s in me I’m believing.