When love turns sour it can become toxic. Ignoring warning signs will only make it all the more dangerous.
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Who Am I?
In your shadowI existHaving lost myselflong agoContent to be thereloving youand being with youAs years go byI remember meThe vibrancyHow I’d turn headson entering rooms full with peopleSpeaking freelyI could spin a storyand amuseI would attractwith my voiceand laughterI had confidenceThis is how youfound meWere drawn to meI stayed with youand you becamemy private audienceNow,Continue reading “Who Am I?”
Always With Me
When we lose someone it is hard to let them go. We can feel their presence all around us in things we see or touch. or in passing moments. These feelings are coping mechanisms and are found to bring comfort while coping with loss.
Paradise
A metaphor for life can help you make sense of complicated concepts and give you perspective. An example of a life metaphor can be a desire to live in a certain place where you think you’ll be happy but, like a lover, it can squash your hopes and dreams
Where The Light Comes In – A Quadrille
The pain of heartache can leave a person in darkness. It can be said that the open wound of heartache could be where the light comes in and be the start of healing
Enveloped in Sadness
Enveloped in Sadness Vacant eyes stare unfocusedThe body slouches over Exhausted from the trials of lifeWeary from the constant motionInside a heart achesfrom the pain of beingBleeding love thatwill never be returnedSleep comes easilyWhenever and whereverGrateful to be taken awayto another dimensionCopyright © 2022 Christine Bolton – Poetry for HealingAll Rights ReservedSanaa is hosting OpenContinue reading “Enveloped in Sadness”
Beyond Repair
Beyond Repair My sadness consuming We are so completely broken The pieces of us now in a thousand shards scattered, carried by the wind Crawling and crying Scratched and bloodied I recover what I can and reassemble the fragments Knowing the damage is irreparable Still I have to do something Isn’t that what I amContinue reading “Beyond Repair”
Broken – Poem of the Month – May 2022
Broken Broken like the wing of an injured bird Broken is the silence of words never heard Broken like branches of a tree slowly bent and withered Crippled by the performance You so cruelly delivered Feeling shattered and broken in a thousand parts It is the sliver of glass that is optimism in my heartContinue reading “Broken – Poem of the Month – May 2022”
Regrets
Regrets A familiar song The scent of a summer flower Forgotten photographs falling from a book The broken plate glued lovingly back together Emotions long buried rising to the surface once more The pang of regret still stabs a lonely heart How did it go so wrong? Remorse came too late to mend the brokenContinue reading “Regrets”
Season Over – A Quadrille
Season Over Hope for new beginnings remains a debt unpaid by Spring. Summer left it’s promissory note for new growth and abundance While Autumn failed to harvest the wishes and dreams left in barren, hardened earth And when winter came sadness fell as love lay dying Copyright © 2022 Christine Bolton – Poetry for HealingContinue reading “Season Over – A Quadrille”
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