Sunlight and Shadows

Finding poetry in star dust, sunbeams, and passing clouds

Category: Heartache

  • Footsteps

    Walking in the footsteps I took so long ago

    Looking back through years past on what I didn’t know

    Pondering life’s meaning, how moments come and go

    Feeling all those things now I couldn’t feel back then

    Wondering the reason that I am here again

    Thinking of the choices, of what else could have been

    Letting go of questions of why and how and when

    Stepping through the splinters of hurt that still are here

    Lighting up past darkness so I no longer fear

    Storing up the good things, the moments I hold dear

    Turning toward the sunshine so shadows disappear

    Walking in new footsteps as future pathways grow

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  • Heartbreak

    A broken hope of taken dreams

    The loss of worlds we make in dreams

    The truth I thought that I could trust

    Turned out be mistaken dreams

    The world is crumbling round my heart

    I fall beneath my shaken dreams

    I vow to never dream again

    Bury the past’s forsaken dreams

    My heart stands fast, will not let go

    Its broken shards awaken dreams

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  • Some Day

    Chasing after something with every breath I spend

    A great, elusive something up there just ahead

    If I can only make it around the nearest bend

    I’ll catch up to this phantom, escape all that I dread

    Chasing after somewhere that everything is good

    And in this perfect somewhere my life falls into place

    My role, my world, my plan for life is clearly understood

    And every puzzle piece is fit so neatly in its space

    Chasing after someday when all these things are found

    I’ll finally stop searching and enjoy life all the way

    Complete with love, success, and health – perfection all around

    I’ll have no fear, regret, or doubt to darken any day

    Chasing after something, somewhere, somehow, some day

    When all along, it’s been right here, if I will only stay

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  • Life

    The letter I wrote to a world that didn’t write back

    The light I found that only led me to a crack

    The call I made to a phone that was off the hook

    The dreams I dreamed that only happen in a book

    A stormy life of springtime joys and winter pain

    A treacherous life of highs to fall back down again

    A hard life that takes great faith to believe

    A weary life of small victories you achieve

    Broken tears of soul-searching depths of pain

    Bitter tears of disappointment, let down again

    Shameful tears of empty hope you once believed

    Weary tears of painstaking, tenuous gains achieved

    Treasure this great, fragile life that is ours

    For only in darkness can you see the stars

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  • Running in Circles

    Slamming up against the wall

    Bouncing back just like a ball

    Running fast from what’s inside

    Just to hit the other side

    I’m stuck in here, I can’t get out

    Boxed in by my fear and doubt

    Prison walls inside my head

    Thoughts so deep they can’t be said

    Afraid to let in any light

    Lest my fragile dreams take flight

    If I keep them locked away

    They still could come somehow, some day

    I just imagine what should be

    And filter in reality

    Float each hope up to the top

    Knowing bubbles always pop

    Round and round this track I go

    Endless loops of high and low

    Unless, until I find the key

    To open up the door for me

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  • Nothing After All

    Something sparkly

    Dancing sunlight blinding your eyes

    But now all you see is shadows

    Something flashy

    Colorful rainbow leading somewhere far away

    But now all you feel is raindrops

    Something charming

    Mystic pied piper’s tune captivating

    But now all you hear is flat notes

    Something exquisite

    Silky strands of velvet, sitting on a cloud

    But now all you touch is fake fur

    Something intoxicating

    Warm sweetness thrilling the senses

    But now all you taste is bitterness

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