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About This Poem
A Road Once Traveled
A Road Once Traveled
I remember waking up one cold morning
Realizing that all my happiness was faded away without a warning
Felt like in that moment, my whole life came unglued
Couldn’t get back the feeling of joy I once knew
The road that I was traveling somehow took on a brutal turn
Couldn’t find where my fire inside once burned
I tried deeply searching for a spark within my soul
All that I found there was darkness in a realm so cold
The tune that I played in my songs seemed to lose its melody
The words were left bound on paper, yet they had no place to be set free
Perhaps my enemies were right; my music was never meant to be strung
Only words just meant to be spoken but never to be sung
So I took the bottle of sleeping pills to never wake up again
I prayed that Jesus would forgive me while I determined my life to end
I wanted to stay sleeping in a trance where I could dream once more
Dreams that never allowed the tears of pain to hit heaven’s door
While I was in a deep sleep I heard a soft voice whispering in my ear
Captured by a vision of a lady in a white gown with wings of sheer
She came over to me and whispered that I needed to live again
That Jesus has a mission for my songs to become a world’s legend
Days later, the doctors were surrounding me around my hospital bed
They said that I was meant to have a second chance, then I reflected what the angel said
I didn’t quite believe then what I believe now, a year later
My songs became famous by the help from someone a lot greater
I’m so blessed that he sent his angel down in my dream
To send me a vision of what my life was meant to be
In that moment I fought to stay alive because I knew that if I lived again
I would continue to follow the road once traveled I used to think was a dead end.
Contest: Suicide Survivor
Sponsor: Richard Tarr
By: Gail Doyle
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