hope

He Smelled Like Forever

( A repost of my favorite love poem. Happy Valentine’s Day!) He smelled like forever As if forever could be measured by time He smelled like an eternity Of sunshine Beautiful rain as it would seem A subtle combination of uneasiness That was his scent He carried it like an old picture Battered around the…

A Sip of Wine

She sits With a wine bottle in her hand And drinks down the fear of tomorrow Her sigh Is heard From the shores of the sand She dreams On far less adventurous things Of a home And a family Of loved ones who are too far away She drinks her sorrow away Waiting for a…

Hope Dances

Hope dances in her eyes Twisting Turning Searching for the truth She thinks A thought Best left unsaid Lest her nightmares Take flight Changing the nature of her life Hope holds her tight When the tears fall And the wind fades Hope believes In the unspoken promises That live within her eyes And tell me…

My Redemption

On rainy days When the sun has gone away Like a flower without water I wilt It may be my guilt that has made me this way Forgiveness Is something I can never earn My redemption is at hand All I seek is a salvation Which saves me from myself I wish to be whole…

Withered Dreams

Withered dreams lay at my feet In puddles of hopeless dreams When I step closer, they struggle away As if I were a disease I see them in the alleyways And across the street In empty shopping malls Where two paths meet And if I were to approach They’ll growl and hiss At my slightest…

A New Day

Take your time And breathe in Let your worries float away Look to the sky And say amen For today is a new day Cast your doubts aside And walk in the light Take a moment And breathe in The dawn has come And dusk will soon be here Use your time wisely Have no…

Hope dances on the wind Whispering in a sweet soft voice on the darkest of nights When the world has gone cold And there are no fires to scare away the night Hope lingers on the lips of lovers It clings to goodbyes as if they were not so It wishes for tomorrow Hope is…

Drifting

Together, we tied the knot With our blood, sweat, and tears Our fears brought us to the brink Of our lies Our bond is broken on the hourglass of time Wishing to go back to a time Where our love was beyond who we thought ourselves to be Evolving Changing Moving to a place Where…

A Father’s Dreams

A mother’s tears teach young girls to be sad Because Dad was never the man you thought he was He was never as sweet or as kind He lost his love while searching for a dream he could not remember Father never loved like her like he did a dream Maybe it was hope that…

Fibromyalgia and I

As I write this my knees are going through a certain type of puberty, trying to decide whether they want to be hot or cold. In truth my knees are swollen and I keep trying to get my husband to buy me new knee caps but it seems that he isn’t going for it. Fibromyalgia…