Tell Me

Tell Me 

 

I ask you Mom to tell me true 
Tell me just what I should do

To make this pain just go away

To make it go to some other place

I know I cannot bear it alone

And since He has seen fit to take you home

That you could see a way to try

To tell my Heart not to cry

 

I ask you Dad to tell me how

How and what to do right now

I know that I should face this pain

Though I feel my heart is slain

Like the man you taught me to be

Without passion is the key 

 To facing pain is what you’d say 

If you were here with me today

Use the strength you have inside

To tell your Heart not to cry.

 

I ask you friend to tell to me

What path I should choose to see

The path of my own sorrow deep

Or for her happiness to keep

That it be enough that she be blessed

With the finding of a love to end her quest

My own tears to put aside

And tell my Heart it need not cry.

 

Now my God I pray unto you

For the righteous thing to do

I know it’s a far better thing.

To be concerned with not my pain

But to take another’s pain away

And so into my memories she slips

With lump in throat, my heartbeat skipped

I say to her a fond goodbye

He has made my heart cease to cry.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2009

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Armstrong Avatar
September 4, 2009 at 6:55 PM
Again, this is wonderful. Keep writing. Terri
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August 29, 2009 at 9:15 AM
Yes, in God we do find hope. You last line is a fitting conclusion to this poem. The emotion comes throught your words. Thank you for your kind words on my poem. Keep on writing. Karen
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