The Longest Winter Season
Taken from the anthology ‘Heartfelt
Baring All’
© Teresa Joseph Franklin
It
has dragged its heals
The
long drawn out meals
The
dark, dark nights
Just
a glimmer of lights
So
many faces
Distant
but near
Crying
in anguish
I feel it too it was distant
keeping its distance
The suffering, the pain, the
agony I felt was in vain
Or was it in vain?
The dreams the visions
All now what seemed a dream?
Were real, cascading through
this mind
The fir trees shedding their
cones
The mistletoe the rose
Oh now I so want, need to
curl in a ball
To be comforted, soothed
from this troubled tormented sorrow
Shroud myself in an
invisible veil
Away from this world, would
this be to no avail?
But it helps to be shrouded
with this veil
Brings a comfort, security,
peace and wisdom too
Maybe not for you!
I am not a prisoner to it
I see clearly, clarity,
Lucidity, simplicity,
Transparency,
I
need this veil adorned never embellished
My
thoughts and feelings privately cherished
No
intrusions, private, no secret
The
world can wait
On
this
The
Longest Winter Season
©
Teresa Joseph Franklin
23rd
March 2013
All
Rights Reserved
Again Teresa. Your words bring tears to my eyes. If only one could wash away the hurt but any words are inadequate to solace such sorrow.
ReplyDeleteYes I have prayed that the God of all comfort will comfort you and strengthen you to cope with all this.
Think perhaps, the gift you have to move other people to tears may make them better persons, more sensitive, more loving, more open to the hurts of others and not to shy away embarrassed, tongue-tied or bewildered.
What you have become and what you will become are because of this and your rise above it while feeling the deepest, the loneliness and the fear of a little girl is a triumph. A triumph all the more glorious becaus only a select few who read, may enter in to your suffering. All the other little girls and little boys who as grown people cannot come face to face with the injustice of it all may, through you, find some meaning, some relief.
This world is a place of darkness. True! But the light does shine in, but only through us as God gives to us of this light you express so eloquently.
Thank you Roger so much for your kind beautiful words, I know the darkness that i am feeling will subside it is just a matter of time and patience with myself and work through it all step by step each day
ReplyDeletemuch love and thank you
Teresa