| Mirror, mirror
When did the mirror first become my enemy?
Answer: When I first looked up into
my mother's eyes.
S. Marie
Kiss
If she would just
come back to me,
I would gently tip her head back
in my hands and kiss her
so softly and so tenderly
that she couldn't be sure if
it was my lips touching hers
or just the memory of them.
Yoin
Alone
Alone,
surrounded by people,
I am empty.
My tired eyes see only
in the shadows of the past.
A past where I had purpose,
where I had faith,
where our love sustained me.
Now my heart beats alone,
beats so painfully that
I am afraid to speak.
Afraid that all that I am,
all that I ever have been
will be lost in a torrent
of misery and insanity.
This evil, unforgiving anguish
overwhelms everything.
My dreams are dying.
My soul is screaming.
My very life is being desolated
and all I can feel
is this terrible fear
of being.....
alone.
yoin
Delimma
How to care for Daddy
love him
feed him
soothe him
keep him alive
and still say "No"
to pleading hands.
S. Marie |
Hiding
There's somethiNg crawling
insiDe of me.
It whispers eViL things
when I'm aLoNe.
It sings qUiet little songs
of iNsanity and Fear.
It snicKers and Taunts
through it's long yEllow teeth.
I try not to liSten,
I have to be stronG.
I smile when friends taLk
but I don't hear tHem.
I don't let theM see mE.
Just below the suRface
there is soMething crawling.
Crawling and waiting
iNside of mE...
Timothy R. Wallen
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