Unrecognizable

            Unrecognizable

When dreams come crashing down

You find your face bent low to the ground

Hope's been shattered

Don't know if you can go on

Wishing to be invisible

Unrecognizable on the inside

Adversity consumes all that's been

Foundation's crumbled in the heat

When day after day re-live the events

Ashes scattered, long gone cold

Burnt up memories residue

Sorrow cloaks heart once bright

When can't see what can be

Darkness plunges over mind

Let go and be swept away

When fully lost can truly be found

Out of the ashes rise

What was lost now found

Mettle tested and tried

Dead skin of doubt sluffs off

All the loss redeemed

Resurrection after depth of tomb

Unrecognizable on the inside

True image displayed

Face to face eye to eye

Inspired by a quote I heard by Bill Johnson, "don't waste your pain."

About the Author:  Brian Bucks lives on a small horse ranch in Western Nebraska and is a husband, father, electrical engineer, and poet. (16-340)