Fondness for Rain

 I'd rather be washed by the rain

Than be drowned by the river

In the melody of water I am lost

Still I believe in rainbows

That awaits when the sky clears up

So I wait for the warmth of the sun

Source: www.freepik.com

And I wait

And I wait

Longingly

While I get drenched

In my fondness for rain.

The Blind

The blind leading the blind

Where I am blind

An arrogant wench

Who refused to be led

So darkness takes me

And darkness led me.

The Findings

How do I know if my thoughts are real?

Art Credit: "Explore Eye" by Miranda Martin

Vacuum Space

You were made for me
You were to fill my loneliness
A huge blackness that grows
And you grew to fill it.

Why did I tell you to go?
I remember my resolve back then
Yet here I am dwindling
But you won't come back to me anymore.

Moonless

Source: "Moon Princess", repainted by tissine

I waited
For the father who loved me beyond the skies and the seas
He swore my well being over others
He kept me from harms way
With him I was safe.

Thoughtlessness

Art Credit: "Archer" by ameeeeba

  An arrow
  That's what you are.

Times

Beach and ocean

Scent of waves that I long for

Treacherously so.

Art Credit: "Nostalgia" by orbedonna

Never Was Ocean

Source: "Lost Footsteps" by zindyzone

I know the waves
Constant yet unpredictable
From afar seems peaceful
Near, she's playful.

My life is mine

Guilt robs a person of their happiness

What was my guilt?

Why am I your guilt?

Source: Tumblr

Sorry

My parents taught me to be strong,

Day and night we worked on a stronger me,

Despite it all, this is what I've become.

Pride

Art Credit: "Moonbeams" by S. Burkett Kaiser

I can see my end

Drowning in the midst of sea

Reached hand, untaken.

- Kembara

Sonnet II, from "To W.P."

Sonnet II, from "To W.P."

With you a part of me hath passed away;
For in the peopled forest of my mind
A tree made leafless by this wintry wind
Shall never don again its green array.
Chapel and fireside, country road and bay,
Have something of their friendliness resigned;
Another, if I would, I could not find,
And I am grown much older in a day.

But yet I treasure in my memory
Your gift of charity, and young hearts ease,
And the dear honour of your amity;
For these once mine, my life is rich with these.
And I scarce know which part may greater be,--
What I keep of you, or you rob from me.

-- George Santayana

Found this from The Wondering Ministrel.

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What I un-Wished

A poem about a different outcome of waiting.

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I remember it like it was yesterday

Your distance silhouette once again leaving

You said your goodbye with a deceived smile

Father promising many calls

Sisters hugging convinced that they will endure

Brother fighting his tears from the future longing

Yet you stood there and waved anyways

A brave smile you masked on

Not believing that all will be alright.

Let go

Not there, I say

Not here? He says

Not there, I say

Not here, he says.

Further, I say

Further? He says

Further, I say

Further, he says.

It's here, I know

Not there, she says

It's here, I know

Not there, she says

True, she says

Lies, I know

True, she says

Lies, I know

Let's go, she says

Let's go, I say.

Let's go, I say

Let's go, he says.

Run, she says.

Stay, I whisper

Run, she says.

Okay, I whisper.

Stay, she did.

Run, I did.

Bye, I said.

Don't, she says

Bye, I said

Stop, she did.

Please, I say

None he says

Come, I say

None he says.

Sorry, I say

Smile he did.

Sorry she says

Cry she does.

It Took All My Energy

 written by Tony Wallace (2001)

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It took all my energy to want you

and the rest of me to go after you

and then one day I knew

that I had you.