Safety Zone

Pulling away from my safety zone

Placing myself right there next to you

This I would do to feel your pain

Endure your dark despair

I would take your hand-hold on tight

Feeling each of your bones within

Endure the fire of your fear

Calm the shaking of your sinews

I mind not to do this for you

If this is the only way

To be able to shed some light for you

Infuse hope within you

Would you like this?

If you say NO then what am I to do?

There is something stopping me

Not within myself but maybe within you

Tell me what should I do?

I feel the breakage coming

Carnage terrible and fierce

You keep pushing me away

Beyond your reach –beyond mine

Is this what you want?

Reaching out to you

I see and feel the need

Do I follow my heart?

Or should my mind rule?

I have finally seen deep inside of you

The battle raging within you

An angel on one shoulder calming you

While the devil twists his tri-fork into you

Is this a chapter about to end?

Or the beginning of something new

It is a fine line drawn here

A battle in which the casualty is us

Pulling away from my safety zone

Placing myself right there next to you

Your pain has now become mine

Explosion of pain finally released

No more questions-it is done

We have traded places now

You are safe-no more fear

I have died in your place

© 2010 14 july/cb

I Wondered

I thought of you today
I wondered how you were

I wondered if you smiled
If you laughed out loud

I wondered if you were warm
And happy inside

It dawned on me that
You may be a little lonely

So I came to sit with you
Even if only for awhile

To converse with you
Of the day’s events and of the weather

I wonder-
Is this okay with you?

© 2010 11 july/cb

Destruction

The winds of change blew through

Life was transformed in an instant

Without warning or provocation

It howled and snarled like a banshee

Battering down anything in its way

Leaving destruction in its wake

Beneath masks of clay lay

Betrayal-lies-unspoken truths

Exposed for all to see

No safe haven could be found

Is now a tattered and torn collection

Debris which will never again be used

© 2010 1 july/cb

The Music Box

Holding the music box from long ago

The music within still plays as if new

Bringing back the past in a rush

Remembering the times we were close

Reading old cards filled with loving prose

Feeling the warmth from long ago

The music box continues to play

Inside the treasures are kept

Brittle and fragile-still they hold magic

Memories precious beyond worth

Whirling in my mind as I watch

The ballerina as she turns and turns

The music ingrains itself in my mind

Flower fragrances penetrating my senses

The clink of crystal glasses and whispered love

Yes they are only memories

A comforting gift in the middle of the night

Still bringing smiles and remembered joy

With gentle care I close the lid to the music box

Closing my eyes as the glow of candles softly light the night

Wishing those days from long ago here again

© 2010 30 june/cb