Poetry From The Heart
The road’s furrowed and bumpy like feelings in my mind
it’s been years since I last traveled this route in life.
Love didn’t exist here anymore only motions without emotions.
I departed long ago, empty, unfeeling, full of hate and disgust
craving a healing of the heart and a resolution of the brain.
Time robbed our love and it stole our admiration’s
a fading, disrespect crept in to swallow up wrongs.
In time the vessel grew fuller and larger to spew out its residue
exposing all injustices, offenses, and debaucheries against me.
I couldn’t stay another day; I was drowning within myself.
I walked this lengthy road out to a free life, a freedom of purpose
never stopped to look back, not caring about scraps left behind.
I sought to walk to destroy a collection of bad memories
retention of remembrances obscured and troubled.
My pace hastened as I could see an ending in sight.
I’m in search of forgiving the user who renounced my love
stole my innocence and made a mockery of our affections.
I want to cleanse every essence of past melancholies
wipe away imprinted scars in the cavity of my soul and
stroll away with an open-minded acceptance of myself.
Writer, Barbara Kasey Smith, Copyright 2013 – Use by permission only.