Veil Of Shadows

I', so alone in this lonely night amidst a veil of shadows
 My heart beats like wildfire inside an empty bosom
My jaded body my soul so tired

Using all my energy just to stay alive 

I feel the fear, the pain 

 as my heart keeps a faster beat like thunder in the night
    my soul paralyzed by the weight
    I hear a voice that says...
"Be calm, be still, you’ve still got time to nullify" 

The handwriting on the wall is beckoning - whispering my name
    my heart's empty -it’s been deceived
    the voice that’s calling out my name will not be still inside my breast

 

I taste the sorrowful words as they repeat...
"Be calm...you still have time to refuse it all" 

The words lay deadly, like plagues upon my tongue
I cry out...  “Please help me see the light"!

I'm weary -tired of this struggle
So worn out from walking this road alone

 What I need is brand new skin-a heart that's new
One not broken or shattered by the fall
An unblemished heart to fill this empty soul

 

It’s getting harder and harder to believe
"Hush now", I cry 

as I fall further and further down this lonely, dark abyss

   falling -tumbling on my own shadow

   I'm finding it harder to resist

 

I’ve slipped and fallen on this same road before

Many times...my hemorrhaged hearts been broken

Bleeding...

from piercing thorns and scars carried heavy in my side 

 
   As I walk down this lonely road alone
   stars and flowers fall aimlessly on the path below

   right before my eyes they fall ...like teardrops on the ground

Sooner or later this road will have to come to an end

   Then- I won’t need a new heart after all

I won't need... anything at all

 

C/R & written by anne p murray 2011

ladeeanne

 

 

 

Reviews

[Samantha ~virginpoet]

this was beautiful and so full of pathos the flow was like sorrow and the structure emphases that even more hope that makes sense lol you both did a great job

[Samantha ~virginpoet]

this was beautiful and so full of pathos the flow was like sorrow and the structure emphases that even more hope that makes sense lol

[Arthur Henn]

This is a beautiful heartfelt prose of poem that strikes a cord of this readers heart.