Silence
The silence is killing me
Draining the life from me
Worse than disdain
Worse than hate
Peeling away little
Layers of myself
Until there is nothing left.
The paths are all blocked
With your indifference
And you won’t see my tears
Nor hear a cry
Because silence reigns
And within the silence
No resolution is possible.
So, I see you drift away,
And though I used to care
And used to fight to hold
You close to me,
I now see the truth
And thus grow impatient
For the end to come.
And as time heals and lets me
Move away from your control,
The silence that once held power
Will come to mean peace
And I will become more than we,
The bonds will be severed
And I will be free.
Love Has Gone
So love has gone...
I think I have known for such a long time
But not wanted to admit - and that error was mine.
So firmly I have held, have harbored the illusion,
Not wanting to give up or to let go of the dream,
But now I know
That is all that it was -
A dream I created with few touches of reality
You are not the one, not the person I created
It was my mistake and error in judgement
For blinding myself to the truth.
I thought though words came hard the feelings were there;
I believed that your love went far beyond what you said.
Now you have said - so there is no more doubt-
And how kindly you put it
“Well, that’s how things shake out”.
Passages
Passages
Today we etch
Yet another name
Into the face of the
Monument,
And with the etching,
Daggers of pain
And sorrow
Eat away at
Hopes for the future.
Insanity claims
A brief victory,
But humanity
Will still win if
The lesson is
Brought to heart,
And we each make it
Our personal task
To stay on the path,
To remember the goal,
To take up the banner,
And not let the madness
Destroy
Hard won victories
Nor tear
The fragile bonds
Of Peace.
Moving On
I deserve the peace I’ve won.
I am putting my demons behind me
And closing the door on the past;
I am facing firmly forward
With never a backward glance
For I will no longer be ruled
By the mistakes of others,
Nor will I play the endless games
Invented by the martyrs;
I will not shrivel under looks
That speak volumes of dysfunction.
I will not do what you have done,
Will not inflict the pain I’ve felt;
I’ve found the strength to move ahead
Without guilt for your old secrets.
I’m sorry for your pain,
But the solution is not mine to give.
The cycle will not go on -
I will see it ended here
We must each find our own peace,
So say good bye and let me be.
I am free.
I will be free -
