Contemplating pain, love, and commitment…
How Great the Pain
She winces sleeping
Not knowing how great the pain
That leaves him weeping
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From – Straight Thru the Curves: A Book of Haiku (WIP)
Category Archives: Pain and Sorrow
Time and Again
Regarding life, love, and commitment…
Time and Again
Twenty one years together
She finds it impossible to imagine
A life without him
It should have been forever
Still she wouldn’t trade even one year
To not feel the pain
She’ll stay here
For now near
To this awful pain
Embracing every last tear
And then she’ll move on but missing their life together
And the not holding him
But he will always be there time and again
Forever
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Robert Cried
Of pain and sorrow in the struggle…
Robert Cried
As Bruce drifted like a phantom through the countryside
He began to draw
More that had become outlaw
One such had come to him but came not to hide
Here his dear old friend the Lady Christian of Carrick
And with her she brought her men that were mounted
More than a dozen her gift
But too, she brought news against which Robert would have wished
‘Twas the tales of his family she recounted
And it made him sick
Now for the first time he heard the fate of Scotland’s pride
How brothers and friends were tortured and killed in the English maw
How his women and beloved were caged with beds of straw
For all of this Robert cried
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While My Face Smiles
In pain and sorrow…
While My Face Smiles
My heart screams with pain while my face smiles
I retreat into hectic routine
But the act only postpones my trials
It is the pain that’s real though perhaps not seen
And life is not normal though to others it may seem
I struggle on tired and numb
Dazed. I still wish this was but a dream
I couldn’t imagine the emptiness losing that special someone
Why?! She was so alive, so young
Missing her stops me cold in my tracks
Hiding from the pain why I stay on the run
But my tears reveal the facade’s many cracks
Mama, Come Back…
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From – A Warrior’s Tears: A Book of Sorrow (Not Yet Published)