It's been awhile since I've posted in here, severe writer's block, but I've come up with a few things...here are two of them... comments welcome... "I Hurt" I stare off into my mind, Flashbacks of times so real I'm there. I close my eyes and open them, Back into the reality I hence sit. A life that's been taken for granted. A lonely life, That my eyes now see. I hurt... I hurt all over inside, When I'm not trying to deny, What I see and have seen. What I've done. What you've done. I hurt like my life, Was over before it began. I'm close to being dead inside, Close to being dead to the outside. A nobody. If I died today... Well, it doesn't matter, I'm too close to being a nobody to you. So it doesn't matter if I continue this. "Starlight, Starbright" Starlight, starbright, It was read in the poem day and night. Somewhere a child is pleading, For their parents to share love. Across the seas, Where the sun has risen. Somewhere else a parent is pleading, For their child to become healthy. Across the time zones, Where the moon has risen. Both open their entreaty: "Starlight, starbright, Make my dream of love, Come true tonight." The parent and child, End their prayers in tears. The both know, What they have won't suffice. Many years of pain followed. A child's death, A child abused. Then one day in misummers eve, An elderly person, And a middleaged adult, Were sitting on a park bench. They looked up at the stars, In unison they said, "Starlight, starbright, I'm sure glad you're in my life tonight." The elder became sick years later, On the death bed. The ageing adult, Was by the elders side. As the elder was dying, The last words were coming out: "By starlight... By starbright... I'll be with you day and night... Never forget we are all connected." The ageing adult wept hard, Went home, planned a funeral, And months later sat down with pen and paper. The ageing adult opened up, Writing and remembering the times. The ageing adult began to remember, All the moments with the elderly, Then closed, "Starlight, starbright, Our prayers came true that night." c. 2007
