Sunlight and Shadows

Finding poetry in star dust, sunbeams, and passing clouds

Category: Heartache

  • 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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  • Path Not Found

    Planets rotate in the sky

    Slowly pass me by

    I hold on dangling so high

    Can’t find place to land

    People all around me stand

    Who will take my hand?

    Ground keeps shifting in this race

    Can’t hold onto space

    I blink, I’m in a different place

    Endless hall of mirrors

    Time’s mirages – minutes, years

    Ringing in my ears

    Grains of sand spill out, away

    I can’t make them stay

    Clashing notes and strange tunes play

    Running through my mind

    Memory clips repeat, rewind

    Searching – what to find?

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  • Left Behind

    I see you walking off into the sunset

    And I’m standing here alone

    I see webs woven around you

    While I sit apart on a stone

    I see your ships all coming in

    But mine is lost at sea

    I see your doors open and close behind you

    While I can’t even find my key

    I know the facts are what is real

    And don’t always match how I feel

    I know how tempting things can look

    The flashy cover on a book

    I know that trust means stepping back

    And praying I’m on the right track

    I know there is a master plan

    And I just take each step I can

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  • Words

    What do words mean? Tell me without words

    They’re mere vibrations lost in the air

    A finite selection of sounds and pauses

    Only make sense if a listener is there

    The speaker thinks this, says that, this way

    The hearer gets half and imagines more

    Memory selectively picks, stores, recalls

    Words lost or altered while feelings endure

    Words everywhere, all the time, drowning in words

    In one place harmless and another place betray

    Speak your own ruin before you can stop it

    Til you find yourself tied up with no words to say

    What enormous power in words can be had

    For they can work great good or unending bad

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  • Watershed

    I stepped out and I fell in

    The ledge I trusted was too thin

    I reached and got my fingers stepped on

    I found out I was a pawn

    I cannot show my pain to you

    Since using others is all you do

    But still it hurts me just the same

    Like I’m the loser in your game

    I see now how I was misled

    And know what I will do instead

    To let go of the pain I feel

    And help the wounds recede and heal

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