Sunlight and Shadows

Finding poetry in star dust, sunbeams, and passing clouds

Category: Heartache

  • One More Try

    Asking, seeking, looking, knocking

    Rising, plodding, stepping, walking

    Holding hopes and crying tears

    Keeping dreams and having fears

    Rising up to step once more

    Asking for an open door

    Doubting, lacking, missing, stalling

    Failing, sinking, losing, falling,

    Taking hits and ending dreams

    Dropping hopes and tearing seams

    Failing every time I try

    Doubting if I’ll ever fly

    Finding, staying, being, knowing,

    Reaching, healing, loving, growing

    Gaining trust and forging ties

    Healing wounds and changing lies

    Reaching for a better place

    Finding safety, peace, and grace

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  • Stuck

    I hurt inside, I try to hide

    The pain in here – I can’t get near

    It seems to say, just go away

    And do not let your guard down yet

    I cannot tell quite how I fell

    Into this hole, this frozen role

    Or where it goes, or if one knows

    If I can see how to get free

    You say to me, you have the key

    And I reply, but what if I

    Can’t reach across the hurt and loss?

    The gulf of pain leaps up again

    Yet I step out through all the doubt

    And there you stand to take my hand

    And help me move to trust and love

    A lifeline rope of hard-fought hope

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