Best Poems Written by Susan Porter

When I Find You.

I have searched for you in the heart of the darkened forest, my cold breath silvered in the 
splintered moonlight. You were not there.

I have looked for you in the garden of my sorrows, where only the weeds of disenchantment 
flourish. You were not there.

I have walked through darkened corridors at midnight, wandered barefoot through rooms 
empty, even of ghosts, where my wedding dress hangs decaying in cobwebs, lit only by the 
sighing moon.

I have a nature made sweet by fragility, a life made empty through timidity. 
But I will search until I find.

I have searched for you in my dreams through landscapes made grey by disappointment and 
regret. Where are you?

And when I find you I shall come to you not just with my brain and my mind and 
my beating heart, but with all of me, all that I am.

And when I turn to you and you enclose me in your arms, sealing off the world, you will know 
by my weeping that I am Home.

And all the griefs of my life will fall from me as I slide the knife deep into your heart and 
watch you bleed.

Copyright © Susan Porter | Year Posted 2010