hope

I have known painI have known fear  Fear chilling than the harmattan air Pain, fiercer and harsher than the whips…

relieving my heart  of all its pangs my mind of all its burden my body of all its aches rolling…

I am waiting for a crack in the shell of the sky, announcing the birth of a new world; free…

I spent too long Pondering on what was lost That I forgot too long Things that are given The love…

I spiralled downward onto the debris that was my life broken and scarred to the marrow still I rise from…

rising from the ashes to shoot up new leaves ~ the felled tree

lengthen shadows under the golden sunset dark splotches of birds floating in the sky whistling of the fall of  night…

your hypnotic beauty winking and beckoning to me under the midnight sky where stars perform their starly duties your serenity,…

a journey to recovery a backward-never-trip to restoration narrow and thorny shallow and stony so many pieces waiting to be…

morning light through the curtains ~ ray of hope