My world… looking in
by
Melva

In dim silence I wander within these very walls that were once my home          

These...which I had thought would always be my own.

 Intensifying sadness engulfs me as I walk each quiet stride    

Such a strange feeling as now you’re never at my side

 I gently touch all that is familiar and well known to me 

Some of which I now can not seem to recognize nor see

 I turn the many pages of our memories, reliving our many years

Suddenly I cannot see through all my streaming tears

 So much hurt and pain enfolds as I reminisce our shattered past

Such a shame our lives together had not come to last

My hurting feelings… my saddened thoughts…to you I was scared to give

Hence past mistakes I made…for me you never would forgive

 Upon my return to you I tried telling you my want to stay

But all your unbelieving and accusing words drove me so very far away  

 The harshness of your voice burns across my tortured mind    

Your hurting echoes come shooting through is all that I can find

A tangled web of pain you weaved for me…with mazes I can’t escape

Each enfolding wave of darkness onto me will always drape

Mounting loneliness drowns me in a deep and deadly shroud  

Your surrounding accusations…are all I hear so sharp and loud 

 Forgetting is forgiving…something that was not your goal

Now knowing you never really wanted me to stay…I gently let go of your soul

 Our family picture once showed with me of raven hair

Now its unfamiliar portrait holds you beside some temptress fair 

 No more images of us and our children are seen upon the wall

I search and see three others…seeing they’re strangers all

 Like cosmic dust all hope from my fingers begins to fade away

My life has passed...no wishes that I can trade

 There was a time we shared each other’s affection

I now look upon a mirror and cannot see my own reflection.

 With soulful eyes I search for the woman that once showed raven hair

I must be lost behind the mirror for it shows no one is there

 Impossible to repair my heart that is saddened and so hollow

No footprints I leave behind for my own children whom I love…to follow

 Slowly I turn and fade away beyond these precious walls

Faintly if you listen…you can hear the haunting of my calls        

I walk alone a silent shadow…a ghost-like child of the night.

Now gone forever… out of yours and every one’s sight    

 

Looking back…as I look in…

 

 
 

                                

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