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Jackie Bowler Poem
Falling
I can’t tell anymore
Which way I’m falling,
At once, I was sure it was down,
But it’s been so long
Expecting to hit ground
That I must be falling sideways.
Is my life so much a trial
I feel I’m falling sideways?
Loss of control,
Fear of what I might hit,
Will I run into tomorrow
Before I’ve lived today?
If I’m falling sideways
When will it ever end?
Catch my breath,
Catch my life,
Rushing by me at a standstill,
Unable to find a handhold,
Not able to find my place.
If I change my perspective
Will it stop me falling sideways?
Turn, reach for something more,
Don’t let them all keep telling me
I have no place right here,
I can’t be who I am.
I believe that falling saved me,
It made me take a stand,
It helped me to realize,
I only have this time
To become who I want to be,
Only I can make that change,
To put my feet on solid ground,
Stand up and take a chance.
Copyright © Jackie Bowler | Year Posted 2020
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Jackie Bowler Poem
The World That I Once Knew
I watch from distant shores
The World that I once knew
Changed, disrupted, breaking,
And lost in deadly shadows,
The World that I once knew.
Motionless,
The World that I once knew,
Drifting aimless in a sea of fear,
No tether do I want
To the World that I once knew.
Breath slows, eyes dim,
She is out of reach
The World that I once knew,
I question what I want from her,
Our lives as they once were?
For as I glance around me
At what we had created,
I see things as they really are,
Turned to our delight,
The World just as we wanted.
Then just as I believed
That we had killed her heart
With burning things, and too much power
She returned to her delight,
The World I wished I knew.
I watch from on the shore
The World that I now know,
Breath of life in her creations,
Songs of birds, breeze through leaves,
The running of the river.
Now I know what I must do
For the World that she created,
For us, to breath, to live, to love,
Not take and try to break her,
My life I give, a watcher, a care taker,
For the World that I now know.
Copyright © Jackie Bowler | Year Posted 2020
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