Mar 02 2007

Frustration to Cessation

Category: Uncategorized — dryvetyme @ 9:25 am

Journeys are taken with
Many fences crossed.
Paths become betwixt &
Hearts pulse with more conflict.

Pain after pain
After ever-growing strain
Fills us with unending groans.
It seems it all has shifted.

But isn’t it a bit peculiar
How & when the oft-ignored
Objects of our past affections
Dredge up the
Lost & never-to-be-found?

Our hopes & our fears &
All of our dreams ever-so-dear
Hold our thoughts captive
But, as never before,
We feel so safe & sound.

APN
Copyright, 01/21/2007

P.S. — This piece is also found as a part of the March issue of The Porpoise Diving Life webzine.

Mar 02 2007

All Taken Care Of

Category: Uncategorized — dryvetyme @ 9:25 am

I thought it was
All taken care of:
Packed away,
Safely disposed of,
Tightly contained.

I told myself
It couldn’t return:
All gone,
Refuse burned,
Completely undone.

But just when
My eyes were diverted,
My attention nowhere near full,
Again there came the hurt!

I try to find my
Ever-pointing fingers:
Cast the blame aside
And the sin that hopes to linger.
I’ve got to run & hide!

I beat myself senseless,
Ashamed the pain is back,
And afraid of what comes next.
Oh, what strength I lack!
I cannot do what’s best!

But just when
I thought hope was averted
And faith had become null,
I found I had so much to learn.

It is not me.
It can never be me!
So why do I want it so badly?

I cannot do it.
So why do I try it?
Might that I give up madly.

APN
Copyright 02/11/2007

P.S. — This piece is also found as a part of the March issue of The Porpoise Diving Life webzine.