This is a collection of short poems I put together for a poetry workshop. |
LOVE DEFINES US And without definition, we grope through the shadows, never touching. BETRAYAL Over and over, my trust was betrayed. Know him? I don’t, and I don’t think I ever did. SLEEPLESS Cannot sleep. Have lain awake for hours. I notice Jorge is wearing clothes to bed, and not pajamas. FACING THE SADNESS Facing the sadness --- the hopelessness --- the absence, increases the despair… Seems to be focusing on the negative; Maybe that is all that is there. FACING THE TRUTH I am sad, yet glad it is over. For so long, hoping… As they say, love is blind. My decline started with desire. I allowed the seduction. Then started the battle between my flesh and my heart, my flesh and my mind, my mind and my heart. Desire clouded my vision, broke my focus. I saw what I wanted to see. I heard what I wanted to hear. I felt what I wanted to feel. I turned my back on the truth. Forced to face the truth… Now, the truth supersedes my flesh, heart, mind. I embrace the truth ---- and the pain, sorrow and lies fall behind POETRY: The words that come without fanfare. They fall down on the page without structure; And yet when combined, become one intriguing tale. |