Tansy Roekaerts Poet Lyric

Once

Their clamouring voices still resonate
Clear as day, how I yearn to go  back
 When time was coloured  to give it more weight
Each hour a bright tint to keep me on track

Did I know the hours could lose their hue?
Suffocate me in glutenous grey goo? 
Back then a tool to keep me on cue
Now seeps through walls and in piles accreue

Tears, laughter, and never going to bed 
Time was so light then, so easily spent
Ignoring even my illness so spread
Till I was left or was it me that went? 

Once  I was a mother, alas no more
I have lost my voice but inside I roar. 

3 september 2020

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Silent One September 7, 2020 at 7:58 AM This does seem like a very personal poem.. You have done the sonnet well...There was a poet called Rumi who said when I am silent, there is thunder inside me... your last two lines reminded me of that... Tansy Roekaerts September 9, 2020 at 3:40 PM thank you ive tried to improve it and would appreciate your thoughts on 2nd version

John Gondolf September 3, 2020 at 2:21 AM A nicely penned sonnet for your first attempt, Tansy. I can feel a deep pain within. All the best to you. John

Richard Evans September 2, 2020 at 6:29 PM The line "Once I was a mother, alas no more, I have lost my voice but inside I roar" is so aesthetic, so beautiful. Thanks for sharing............peace! Tansy Roekaerts September 2, 2020 at 6:45 PM Thank you so much. Its an intensely personal poem, and my first attempt at writing a sonnet, so I really appreciate it.