Hero

Hero

Sorrow troubles my thoughts

when I realize all we're not

nor ever will be in this life

When I was young

I idolized you

now I just grieve

Why did you stop

growing and risking

shriveling in your skin

There's so much

I want to know about you

locked away in your shell

Each choice you made

walled off your voice

'til silence is all that remains

Too painful to broach

or unfold all the past

shrouded in your shame

So in the years you have left

I press forward

you fade upon the horizon

Memories remain of long ago

when you were my dad

and hero was your name

On the other side of this life

on that day

we'll be restored

19-162z

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Drinking

Drinking

Sweet spring nectar addiction

Poem 19-152y

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Pace and Wait

Pace and Wait

            -i-

Anxiety paces the floor

footsteps ever echo

down darkened hallways

ever looking for light

            

            -ii-

Peace waits with me

thaws icy memories

walks with me

to the other side

           -iii-

Anxiety paces the floor

repressed buoyancy

always held under

can't catch a breath

            -iv-

Peace waits with me

pulls me above trauma

out of the riptide

to rest on freedoms shores

            -v-

Anxiety paces the floor

taut spring suppressed

overwound emotions

cortisol wreckage

            -vi-

Peace waits with me

volcanic emotive release

bears my burden

never forsaken

Poem 19-152z

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The complexity of being human and trauma experienced. There is hope, peace, and healing. Matthew 11:28-30