Your Heart Will Mend

 The day we brought you home

There was a storm.

The sky grew black as night, thunder shook,

Like pages in a ghostly horror book.

You and your mother slept upstairs, safe and warm.

 

The branches on the tree beat up and down,

Like some mad clumsy bird to leave the ground.

It’s leaves like feathers fluttered in the air,

Or gypsy curses in some long nightmare.

 

The world has its pain.

The world has its grief.

The dark light inside the rain.

A solitary leaf.

The moment when you feel

Completely lost.

Not remembering what you love

Or what it cost.

 

What you wanted from another,

What you expected to find,

What you couldn’t take with you,

Or let go and leave behind.

 

Sometimes we’re prisoners,

Other times we’re free.

We feel like tiny islands

In an empty endless sea, 

Or we feel like mountains

Shining in the sun,

Down us silver rivers,

Wet rainbows run.

 

We feel disconnected, isolated, dead,

Like a baby screaming hopelessly

That never will be fed,

Until it gives up trying, 

Thinks what’s the use of crying,

I died the moment I was born,

I starved on loneliness and scorn,

I lost the will to trust another,

I lost my father and my mother.

 

But then somebody takes your hand,

and leads you to a peaceful land,

And loves you like no other,

Like a sister or a brother, 

Like a lover or a friend.

Then all your scars will heal

And your heart will mend.

Reviews

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Yes, you are so right, it is amazing what love can do. It is the great elixir, the great healer. Very well done!

[KAREN BROWN]

very beautifully written,so true love of family friends. I lost my mom and dad it hurt and tore me up inside, but time does heal you never forget but my friends and family that i have left helps more then anything cause i know they love me.

[Sarah Morgan]

Very good work and oh so beautiful. I love the flow to this piece it just draws me in. It's going into my favorites. Yet again bravo.

[Katrinka Johnson]

This is a good poem it actually think about my life and the things that happened that were good and not so good.

[boldartist]

Good Poem,like the paragraph structure and the poem started with a tree and then a leaf. The flow of the poem was great.Thank you,Bruce.BoldArtist

[E. M. Murren]

Ah, so true. No greater healer than love. Well said. Well written as well. I like this a lot. A passionate write of great wisdom. Bravo.

[Stephanie McCants]

Very moving and emotional it is truely a work of art.

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This is good! Very deep! The words painted a vivid image for me. Really great work!