Do two people really become one? Is togetherness betraying who we are as individuals?
Category Archives: Questioning
Unfinished Business
Unfinished business in relationship can be confusing. Has something been left unsaid or undone? Sometimes you have to revisit and repair or renounce
Not Welcome – A Quadrille
Not Welcome Old photographs familiar scents A forgotten song sending me to where you still hover on the perimeter of my life Popping in and out as if still welcome Memories were good until they weren’t Where is the pop-up blocker when you need it most? Copyright © 2023 Christine Bolton – Poetry for HealingContinue reading “Not Welcome – A Quadrille”
What Did I Do?
What Did I Do? What cross do I bear? What cruel wretch must I have been in another life? My karma is penance for some evil deeds for which I must be guilty Because I pay the price everyday living with a psychotic vampire sucking life’s blood from my body and oxygen from my brainContinue reading “What Did I Do?”
Uneven Terrain
Uneven Terrain The road is uneven hindering progress Slowing my stride I tread carefully not to slip Concentrating on each thought and decisions made What had brought Me here? Again A lesson to be learned What did I miss? Always on this path Going somewhere, nowhere Bent out of shape from missteps and life’s callousContinue reading “Uneven Terrain”
Whitewater
Whitewater Listening tothe gentle soundof water tricklingover rocksGoing in different directionsEvery bumpEvery twistand turnSlowlyQuicklyForever changingits courseas the stoneswear downwith age Today the riversmelled of himReminding herof their lifeHe had taken herthrough whitewater Gasping for airat every bumpReaching heightsonly to splashhard on the downExhilarating Backbreaking Numbing The bare treesNow stripped oftheir leavesNaked and aloneWaiting for newgrowthShe understoodas she struggledto maintaindignity in theaftermathof hisragingContinue reading “Whitewater”
Colors of the Heart
Colors of the Heart Purple has becomethe new color of my heartOnce red with passionnow bruised with your bluesA splattered abstract artThe combination of colorsis resulting in a different hueThe mix is not compatibleand a coalescence will not forminto a heart that will remain trueA perfect blending of shadeswould bring harmony to the soulBalancing theContinue reading “Colors of the Heart”
Questions
Questions What is missing inside of methat refuses to believeI am worth more? That this treatmentI have receivedis acceptable? Instead of being takento the top of the mountainI was left to rot in a ditch Declarations of loveDuplicitous, dishonorableyet believable Now I am a warriorfighting for her lifewith amputated limbs My heart in need of healingDoubting and doubtfulScarred with cynicism WhyContinue reading “Questions”
Why?
Why? Was I really flirtingwith danger?Should I have just letthings slide?Eventually my cynicismwould have won that battleWhy had I even tried? Impossible to communicatewith you anymorebut we needed to havethat one important talkYou lash out as alwaysDon’t shoot the messengerYou have already crippled meand I can no longer walk Christine Bolton – Poetry for Healing ©Word PromptsFlirtContinue reading “Why?”
Harnessing Emotions
Harnessing Emotions Appreciatingthat solitary momentwhen quietness encirclesyour bodylike a warm blanketof comfortA feeling of peaceand tranquilityto soothethe weary soul KindnessGentlenessPatiencePeaceLiving in harmonyIn an ephemeralexistenceinside your beingand taunted bydesires and emotions With clarity of mindthe fruits of the spiritstare back, challengingWild feelings aliveyet to be harnessedSelf-control and masterynecessarywithout whichall otherswill be swept away Christine Bolton – Poetry for HealingContinue reading “Harnessing Emotions”
Poetry For Healing 