My Poetry Collection

Strength

Never shall I keep from you

what I think shall help

Never could I say the words that make you hurt

I shall find a way to heal the inner wounds

that are self afflicted

upon my heart

Yes indeed

that shall never become of me

yet I feel in desperate need

to cry out

so I no longer bleed

the rose that bleeds can no longer change the past

but shall move to the future with strength

wisdom

and

many sacrifices.

I want to no longer bleed

I want no more pain

Everyday I cry out

for saving

Lord hath no fury

when teaching

the young

and

Lord hath no fury

in teaching me the lessons

in which I need

I know this

yet I bleed and cry out

I wonder

how this soldier in me survived

for so long

I see the battered gear that lay beside that soldier in me

I cry because

I never knew what made me last so very long

To hell and back

awoke that soldier

in me

I fought for strength in a place where

I was too weak to stand

I fought for balance

in a world that has no understanding

in a world where I couldn't breathe

My breath was weak

and I was drowning

How did I survive?

The world was never kind

and yet I wanted it to be

I can't change what the world is

I looked for strength

in a place that was falling apart

I looked for stamina

in a place where I could no longer run

I looked for happiness

in a dark abyss

I look for how I did it

and found it

in a place that I no longer looked to

The strength lied

in people I loved

My family.