Please let me breathe without the pain

Sadness felt at the missing of someone very dear to the heart

Please let me breathe without the pain

 

The clouds this day so low they fall

Upon my shoulders heavily

Though rain it need not start to flow

As tears drops rain inside of me

 

The pain of never knowing why

With answers hiding in the mist

As sadness bears its lonely frown

In moments on a day like this

 

Of crowded places all alone

I stand but of a weakened way

With words which I have always known

And can not find the strength to say

 

This sorrow clings my every thought

Now as a shrouded woolen wrap

Though warmth it does not lend aloft

Much more of this, its endless trap

 

The sun they say again will rise

Though at this time I can not see

My happiness has gone away

The sunlight but a memory

 

Oh take this pain and cast it far

So I’ll not feel it once again

And place it on the farthest star

So far away I beg thee send

 

As something of my life is gone

To never fill my lonely heart

I’ve never felt so all alone

My world has slowly come apart

 

So much the world does bring my way

Oh how I am supposed to feel

When sadness seems the only way

And oh its grasp is very real

 

Yet I must look about this place

To honor those which I have lost

And force a smile upon my face

Regardless of this heavy cost

 

For I am merely but one soul

As time does pass I only cry

Of things I now can not control

And minutes that are passing by

 

Yet this is life despite my fear

The pain seems long and evermore

If only I could disappear

Till happiness arrives once more

 

When pain becomes a memory

So I can think of better days

As once again the sun I see

To feel the warmth within its rays

 

For now this loss shall quell my dreams

To offer nothing more or less

As still I plead on bended knee

For this, my only true request

 

Please let me breathe without the pain

As time does pass so ever free

And tell me I shall see again

My friend to stand in front of me

 

 

Author's Note

Thank you for reading

Reviews

[JennyinCO]

You are in prayer, for God to hang your hurt on some distant star. To throw it "as far as the east is from the west," to "bury it in the sea of forgetfulness." It is so hard to even draw breath when grief is suffocating you slowly. You will learn to breathe again, without agony, if only you can know that you will see this person again. And this is the divine and wonderful hope of your faith. Beautiful, beautiful faith!

And it equally applies to the hurt of others, as when you love them, their hurt is almost equally yours.

[Sami Khalil]

This is a very heartfelt , deep , thoughtful poem that touches our hearts deeply to feel your pain or sadness. So many beautiful lines to quote but you have done an awesome job in your tribute to your friend . Sorry for the loss and hang in there dear poet...Death can be unfair to most and loss can be heavy load to most...

[Jack...]

Thank you so much for your kind words and thoughts. However, I want to let you know I wrote this for a friend who had lost someone very dear to her as I shared in her pain.

[Sami Khalil]

You are right. What makes us human is our sympathy with one another... :)