Category: Poetry

A single tear leaves its salty path
Creeping slowly across my cheek
Its jagged trail cuts my very soul
I stand alone, bared to the world

Not one minute more, then sadness takes me
Just now, when I cannot die, I die a little inside
Now when I don’t care, I lose a little of me
I now owe nothing, nothing anymore

I gasp, needing, dying, calling out for air
My single cry pierces the quiet night sky
Overtaken by bitterness, I scarcely remember the sweet

That which I loved has traveled on
After coming to me without searching
Only questions remain, the how and the why
Feelings fading until they haunt my soul

So many sorrows, were they meant for me?
Will the pain blacken my world?
I fight to remember the beauty
Even if its memory kills me little by little

It’s the empty words that sicken me
The fake “I Love You” on the phone
The smiling lies, the smiles alone
It’s the false hope that you are mine
That’s what hurts my soul so bad

I need to stop loving you
I have to let you go
But love, I’m afraid of doing so
I miss you, I hate you
I feel like loving you some more
I feel like waiting one more Christmas
To see if you will come

Oh Great Bird that soars the sky
was long ago too small to fly
and if someone then had said to her
that she would never make it there
she might have given up in despair
and never try to jump up in the air

For how could wings with hardly a feather
ever take her and withstand the weather
and if she had seen others try and fall
she could have wondered about it all

But little bird was bold and brave
willing to risk falling to her grave
her conviction far stronger than her fear
her desire to fly up, to never shed a tear

So she tried and fell down to the ground
strange eyes on her, danger all around
the toil of climbing back up to the nest
to jump again without taking a rest

She could give up, stay down in the dirt
but she tried again, even when it hurt
and so it happened in one of her attempts
a breeze came to her and the sky made amends

She caught the wind, her wings now strong
her body aching from falling for so long
but now she soared and all was well
she felt deep things, too deep to tell

And so Great Bird rose into the skies
flying away from my sad and teary eyes
where would she go, I would never learn
but I’ll keep the lesson she gave me: To Yearn

I die
so silently
my heart had never known it
before today

And I
in tears that never drop
I do not cry
for me

Never look back
said the gods
didn’t They mean
always look forward?

Now, I have done just that
but the only thing I saw
was pain, loneliness and sorrow
and I don’t want to look anymore

I thought I could be brave
but I am not
so, silently
I die