poetry-by-tedrow

Sunset on a Broken Horizon

Listen to the gentle breeze
Down comes the darkness
Run with the shadows
Damn your devotion, damn your perjury
Break the tranquility
Damn the dark, damn the light

Will you accept me?

The identity I portray
Lacks total and complete credibility
It masks my character, morals and integrity
It restricts my moral fiber
I’m constricted in these rules of society
Apprehensive to make a move
The persecution is presented as unbearable

Beyond You

I’m slowing becoming that person you will never know
I am evolving into this soul you always ignored
My thoughts constantly remind me of the void
You intentionally inflicted into my life
My words often seem unspoken
You paralyzed any type of emotion
They possibility could have portrayed
Your promises lack credibility
And convey no trace of remorse

Allow Me

I cried today
and planted a garden.
I sat in the sun and let my heart bake hard.
Sweat and tears mix
and the earth holds my pain.
My salty offerings will seep into my seeds.
From this day new life will grow.
I will watch my grief bloom
racing toward the sun
and smile.

Such a cruel and unfair world
take innocent souls captive
persecuting them for something
beyond their own control
is reprimanding necessary?
Why can you not allow me to be
the only person I have ever known?

A New Chance

The broken heart you held in
grew a new dream within me
something wild derived from my very soul
a glimmer of hope
a glimpse of simplicity
a chance at love
that once broken child now bears a chance
at something that once seemed so unobtainable

A New Me

He told me I had changed
And I felt this to be true
Something changed
A new growth
From something I’ve yet to understand
A new person beaming with joy
Who is this?
She can do anything
She wants to achieve
My old self never dream
With this much color