Sunlight and Shadows

Finding poetry in star dust, sunbeams, and passing clouds

Category: Heartache

  • All Things New

    I will not walk that road again

    I will not walk it, not begin

    I will not do what I did when

    I turned onto it way back then

    I will not sing that song once more

    I will not sing it, not restore

    The past of loss that came before

    I will not let its false notes soar

    I will not think those thoughts anew

    I will not think them, not review

    I will not drag my present through

    What’s passed away, no longer true

    But I will walk a brand new way

    And I will sing new songs today

    And I will think and I will say

    To in the fresh, whole present stay

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  • Playing Dirty

    I saw you – I know what you did

    Playing games with me like I was a kid

    You think you tricked me, you think you got away

    Well you got another thing coming today

    Cause when you come knocking on my door

    I won’t be around here no more

    You can yell after me, call me names

    But you’re the loser in your petty games

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  • Distortion

    The ache was only a mirror

    A hard glass wall of fear

    A trick of the light

    To obscure my sight

    And keep only sorrow near

    The wish was only a star

    A twinkling glow afar

    A promise of light

    That blinks out of sight

    A distracting repertoire

    The life was only an act

    A shell with stuffing packed

    A play thing too light

    To keep within sight

    And let me keep hiding from fact

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  • Break Through

    Today I doubt, today I cry

    I look for answers I can’t find

    I ask why is this suffering – why

    Do we just fall further behind

    Tomorrow I will try again

    Tomorrow could be better, sure

    I believe we still will win

    All we can do now is endure

    I cry for help, to see, to know

    The answers to show us the way

    To set us free from this great foe

    Break through the night to light of day

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  • Dreams

    What dreams we have and how they fly

    Just beyond our reach

    They keep us looking at the sky

    Eyes off of our feet

    We trip and fall or hit a wall

    Give our hearts and lose it all

    End in hard defeat

    With nothing left but bravely try

    To stand within the breach

    What dreams we have and how they fade

    Just when we get near

    Drawn by the shine of gold and jade

    Feel success is sure

    They slip away and faith betray

    Into the dying of the day

    Slamming of a door

    But true hope though worn out and frayed

    Will never disappear

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  • Darkest Hour

    No one else feels this hurting pain

    That pummels at me from within

    No one else knows the sheer despair

    Of getting stuck alone again

    No one else hears the cries for help

    So silent in this agony

    No one else sees the deep regret

    That this again is destiny

    But I can feel the ray of hope

    That warms me through the waves of pain

    But I can know that I will rise

    When I get through the storm again

    But I can hear the bells of love

    Chime faintly through the din of hate

    But I can see that just one day

    Does not determine my life’s fate

    I can’t avoid the storms of life

    Or dodge the rain from every cloud

    But in it, if I listen, still

    Hope will rise and sing aloud

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