With clever words
You sew my lips shut.
With blameless guilt
You drive me to my knees.
To intimidate
You create the illusion
That you are larger than life
And I cower once again.
I will beg
And I will implore
You to allow
Me to be
No more.
For the illusion of your
Grandeur
Has failed.
Time
And light have
Exposed
Your true
Nature.
I do not cringe at your approach
Anymore.
I smile.
Knowing all the while
You
Cannot hurt me anymore.
Let the storm come over me.
Soak my soul
In tears.
Shake my heart to pieces
With
Thunder from the sky.
Let the lightening
Ignite this love that’s
Been slumbering
Inside
Behind these mighty walls.
Fill me up,
It’s been so long since I’ve
Felt whole.
Hold me close
I’ve been so alone.
I don’t know
Where these dreams
Are going to go.
I don’t know how,
But they are coming to life now.
You are still in my heart
Where you will
Always live.
I made it
Through winter’s storm
And carry you still.
I wake up every morning,
Dreams lingering
In my mind.
Yet I hold you
Quietly
In my heart.
The pictures have faded,
But not the ones
In my blood.
The feelings
Recalled reside inside me.
Yes,
I endured the silence without you.
Yet always,
I keep you with me.
This skin.
These bones
Hold memories
I cannot recall.
Every rise,
Every fall
Are contained
Within.
Every laugh,
Every cry
As the hours
Seemed so often to crawl by.
Every birth,
Every death.
Every hand I have held.
Every sunrise I have beheld.
They
Are alive
Inside me,
Pulsing through my veins.
Our voices,
They sing.
Our lungs,
They breathe.
Our feet
Walk along
The paths
Of dreams.
Our hearts,
They beat.
Our Souls,
They see.
Our hands,
They reach
For stars up in the heavens.
I’m going to love you no matter.
No matter
That
You think
Your wings are useless
And tattered.
No matter your legs are tired
And your head hangs low.
No matter your smile has
Turned to a frown
And your brow is furrowed.
I will love you
While you kick and scream at the world.
As your shell cracks and
And your defenses
Fall
Apart.
I will love you through the
Dark and the light.
I will love you through
It
All.
She knows what it feels like to be invisible.
To be in a room with hundreds
Of people
And,
Like the air,
They breathe her in not realizing
She is there.
Her heartbeat the passion of the music.
The cellos
The violins,
And the dance.
Her presence creating a magical trance
And strangers smile as she drifts by,
Not knowing why.
There is delight in their hearts
At the gentle brush
Of her hand as she passes through,
A mere whisper of a breeze.
Her aura
At the tip of their memory.
Something they long for entirely
But cannot quite reach.
A haunting memory
Of a desire to hold onto
Yet
Out of their grasp,
She slips away.
And they,
The strangers
Are left asking
One another
If anyone else sensed the
Magic
They cannot describe.
You see me standing tall.
You see me now,
Today.
But you have just arrived
On my journey.
You did not see my path
To this destination
Where I stand at this moment.
There were many I had to leave
Along the way.
The ones I believed
Loved me.
Many I have forgotten
But
Few stay within my heart
Where I will hold them
Safe
Forever.
So you look at me standing tall
But
You make assumptions
Dear.
You were not here in the dark
Days
When upon my hands and knees I did
Crawl.
You have not laid your
Heart eyes upon my
Wounds.
Some minuscule.
Some as deep as canyons. I myself have yet to know their true depths.
The ones,
The scars that drug me here
To this place where I stand tall.
Chole Into Diamonds 