Journey From Exile

The journey to rescue my soul began in your eyes where I traveled for hours in a warm wondrous afterglow of emotion trying to find the unguarded gate of your heart's invitation to come in from a cold world where you found me a hungry, thirsty, traveler in self-imposed exile, drifting on dark winds like a flower with broken petals tumbling away to leave an empty brown stem, burning away in the sunlight where the tearful cry of a heartbeat is heard in the solitary sound of loneliness, along with emotions of misery that endures my lingering death of echos from this...you have given me a reason to hear the lost melody of my soul as I lay in your eyes, a prisoner of your kindness held by your tender embrace where my long nightmarish journey has ended as I search through the distance between our eyes I find an unmeasurable treasure where my long road disappeared and my soul began to reach out to be tethered to the west winds of your heart as the stillness of time smoldered in the dewy mist of my traveled yearning 3/20/22 contest Form -J sponsor Constance La France