HEAVY

HEAVY!

Heavy, heavy

Like a stone in this heart

A heart tuneless, meaningless

String less

Melodless

A heart and soul

Screaming, screeching

To be fixed!

It’s a heart and soul

Crying out so loud

It’s a heart and soul

I’ve left on the shelf

Ignoring myself

The pain and misery too much to bear

I cannot bear to hum along with

The guitar now pointless

I can no longer strum along with

The words and tune

My feet have stopped tapping

To the rhythm and the beat

It’s hurtful, painful

Treacherously dangerously

That is showing my

Two-facedness

I’m being underhanded

And so were you!

But not in your way was I

The strumming has ceased

And now there is no peace

Just this emptiness

Without your happiness

You left this world too early

You left with a huge void

We toyed

We enjoyed

All the laughter and the tears

You faced your fears

But you have left me too early!

Too early, too early

Now I am facing my tears and fears

Without you, without you

Strumming the blues

Loneliness is a big scary animal

Love is and was here

I cannot strum any cheer

You left me too early

Miss you, miss you

Miss you nights

Miss you days

Miss you with my heart and soul

Too much rocking to the music

This song is going nowhere

And now I cannot go back

But how can I go on?

Yet I need to cross this river

Yet I need to cross those bridges

Strumming, strumming

Wondering, wondering

Pondering, pondering

Where do I find my voice!

Your void, your void

Our void

Scattered to the wind

Where I cannot rewind

Lay at peace

Be at peace

My heart and soul

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

4^th November 2015

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