Category: Poems

They tell me I could make it through,
They tell me I’d survive this,
They tell me I’d soon find out,
How strong I really am.

“I could live without you”,
That’s what I’m supposed to say,
I’d be strong like they told me to,
And I’d be okay.

But I don’t want to be strong,
I don’t want to be the one who survives,
I don’t want to be the one who never cries,
Could I hold back the tears once we say goodbye?

I don’t want to say it,
Yes, I’d be the stubborn one,
The one who wouldn’t forget,
The one who never lets you go.

Allow me just this once
To ask silly questions,
To smile without a reason
To cry just because I feel blue.

And if it’s not too much
I hope you allow me to dance
Just because I had the chance
And not to prove what I can do.

I love you, and if you love me, too
I hope you make room for my mistakes
Remind me that I’m free
To choose the paths I’d take today.

I’ve been trying so long
To feel that I belong
But what I needed was to be loved
When everything else goes wrong.

They say that grief
Is not something you get over with.
It’s not something you move on from,
Something you can live without.

Grief is a big cloud
That engulfs you
And swallows you whole
It becomes a part
Of who you are.

So no matter how far
You think you’ve come,
It follows you.

It visits you in your dreams,
Shows its eyes
In your waking moments,
Joins you as you eat,
And sweeps over you
Like huge waves
Crashing upon the shore.

Yet for what it’s worth,
Even grief
Seems to understand.
It has seen you for who you are.
It has compassion over you,
And hides itself
From time to time.

Even grief gives you space to breathe,
It gives you time to mend,
And yes, sometimes
It allows you to forget.

You forget
Until it comes again,
Reminding you,
That it never truly goes away,
But it’s okay.

The waves are getting smaller,
The pain is something you could bear.
You no longer reside
Within your grief.
Your grief now rests
Within your heart.

There are days when I forget.
Days that pass by
As though there’s nothing wrong…
The voices are silent,
The shadows turn back,
And the biting winds
Refuse to blow…
And I almost think
I’d be alright.

But just when
I’m beginning to smile a little,
Just when I’m beginning
To look into your eyes,
Soaking my soul
Into your light,
The screams return,
The darkness
Chokes me,
And I fall hard
Into the ground.

I wake up…
What’s the dream?
And what is not?

There was a time when we had faith,
When we believed in God.
There were days of doubt,
There were days we suffered,
But our faith urged us on.

There was a time when we had hope,
When we believed in God.
It was not always easy,
Many days were dreary,
But our hope kept us warm.

There was a time when we had love,
When we believed in God.
There were times when we fought,
But we never gave up
We forgave because we loved.

Now our days are but fleeting fragments,
And all our joys are illusions we make
For all that we gained, we have lost our souls
O, how we used to be whole,
When we believed in God.