Happiness can be elusive, no matter how hard you try
No matter how much you give and how long the lie
One day you’ll awake and begin asking yourself why
But for Heaven’s sake, I never thought I would cry
For happiness is in the heart which often leads the way
Always being the biggest part in often leading us astray
When will I ever learn to just close that broken door
For by now I simply yearn to not hear it anymore
But I can’t change and my heart is well aware
Saying “you tried to derange, so now fair is fair
But back then I didn’t care, so wrong, I admit!
The both of us standing bare, neither willing to quit
Then in staring each other down I began to notice
He too was wearing a frown, one I could not miss
Making me finally realize after all of those long years
All those broken down cries were really all his tears
Alcohol sitting in my veins now
Foggy brain
Grieving day
Days run together
Now that the barstool holds me
My mind shouting her name
Never going to lose that love
Even now that we are away
Away from each other
Going our own
Going our own way
Heavy hearted I am
I take that glass full
Washing away my pain
But it’s too late
Too late
Cause my pain ain’t going away
when thoughts unkind
and winds turn cold
a heart in atrophy
slowly turns to stone
while severed
disconnected
its string gone feral
the soul astray
drifts off
to chase the first
warm breeze
AP: 2nd place 2022, 3rd place 2022
Submitted on September 26, 2020 for contest IMPACT AND METAPHORS sponsored by WILLIAM KEKAULA - RANKED 1ST
Posted on January 29, 2020
A cloudy sky looms
With threat of rain today,
And our American flag
Is being shredded
By the fierce winds
That constantly blow,
A reminder of our soldiers
And how they too
Are being shredded in this
War that no one wants.
Safe and warm within
My little castle on the hill
I can’t help but think
How cold winter will become;
That chill to the bone
They will feel washes over me
As compassion for their
Bearing up stabs my heart.
As each tour ends another
One begins, with funerals
To attend and more young
Soldiers laid to rest with cold
Medals of honor and folded flags
That will wave no more.
The rain is here and like my tears,
Comes in sudden bursts.