Month: April 2018

Week 17: Soul

Week 17: Soul

Soul Invisible and some say non-existent I know you are out there somewhere in a place where time has no clocks hovering over me wispy, wise benevolent When the opinionated ego with its petulant wounds withdraws its magic and sulks inside its bruises you nudge […]

Week 16: Promise

Week 16: Promise

Promise The shadows were long in the setting sun and you had kept all your promises to the ones you loved You had even honoured the ones to whom you only admired or less And yet You had broken many made to yourself Not the […]

Week 15: Longing

Week 15: Longing

Photo credit: Denise Smith “Made for Love”. Follow Denise on Instagram @deniselifeart or on FB Denise Smith (Photo Album – My Streets)

Longing

You have wrapped
your desires
in an invisible shroud
of your longing
under layers
of regret
hidden tightly with
all your losses
shame and pain

Your hooded
vulnerability now
buffered from the wind
forges ahead
missing someone
you have never met

Winter is
your safest season
skate over
the lake of frozen tears
stay on the edges
of your longing
near the guarded trees
and the reliable rocks
keep your eyes ahead
ignore the signs
that scream you are
beloved

the thaw will come
the cycle will complete
nothing is lost
when you let it go

© Tanya Southey
#52words52weeks

 

 

Week 14: Thrive

Week 14: Thrive

Thrive You are there though layers of adulthood may have concealed you But it does not take an archaeologist to unearth you chip below the psyche’s dust and there you are shy, sensitive child who could not watch a Western movie the fighting between the […]