"The most important lessons you learn, are the ones you learn in your everyday life" ~ Zachary K. Craig* Attempting a new presentation for a poem, based on personal events *
You said that it would be all over - a new start. Opportunities: you strived to ensure they made an appearance.
Yet you gave into temptation - cracked under pressure. Slipping down a slide - as if waiting for disaster.
The questions stump me: "Are you still the same? The same as you have always been? Is it you?"
Then again, I guess at one point in our lives, we are not who we have previously claimed to be.
People have always asked you: "When will you listen? When will you learn?" - With me, I see:
A true potential behind those sunken, shallow eyes, as if deserving another chance.
But what about us? Have you forgotten about the rest of the ones you love?
Didn't you think that these events could have such far-reaching effects?
Why you continue to face this alone - no one really knows.
Let us be your sanctuary - your haven - your shelter.
The ones who stop you from drowning - and yet,
The greater the distance between our voices
The more we have to watch you suffer.
You are no longer around.
Off facing the world alone.
A new challange per day.
You may have gone
But never are you
Forgotten.
* Image Source: http://dailybiz.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/371_downward_spiral.jpg *
A very sensitive, beautiful, yearning piece! It is as if you are standing watching someone, hoping they reach for help! And perhaps knowing it can't be given without the asking! Indeed, every day life may dish out some tough lessons, but the spirit grows from the learning!
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