Tuesday 16 January 2007

treading water

I am enslaved to promises

I have no wish to keep –

Though you are not here to soothe my tears,

I am still screaming in my sleep.

 

I would give to you my life,

My heart – each drop of crimson blood –

For without you I am broken, bleeding;

Drowning in the flood.

 

The rose which grew from dust

Is dying as each petal falls,

And the wind is tearing, bitter,

Through this shelter devoid of walls.

 

How can I swim,

If I have not the strength or will

To rage, to fight against the crow

As he swoops, crying for the kill?

 

SJL: 5th September, 2004

 



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