The Hearts Barbed Tale by Steven Craig How many times have you died? You still have dragons under your bed And you still have stars in your eyes You have always wanted to be loved deeply Intensely Just for you And who you are You want people to love you, But you hide behind things you create To camouflage your real self Healing for you is hard Dreams cover the scars In the daylight You do not speak of them And at night They haunt you They are of course Memories And desires And a love so intense that was shattered In the briefest flash It was never recovered No time has ever been fair with you since You cry alone in your heart No one treads there now Where your first true garden grew You are one with yourself You desire so very much to melt into another’s life To feel that safety that comes from love You also understand that the love you seek Is also the wrath of your memories guiding you away When you let go When you surrender control When you submit your mind completely to another It frees you To feel Feel who you have always been I have been able to do so Have you ever so totally And undeniably surrendered? Not yet you say But you have Time And time And time again In your desires In your dreams In your fantasies In your needs In your quiet shy moments You have been a slave To a shadow That held you helpless And kept you tight And locked in an embrace Of leather and steel And you lusted And screamed And stirred in wild abandon Until you were to pass away from memory Into sleep’s abyss A long duration So awakened again And be amused By your beads of perspiration 08/18/2007 Posted on 08/18/2007 Copyright © 2024 Steven Craig Member Comments on this Poem Posted by Meagan Green on 08/18/07 at 06:48 AM this reminds me of my first true love and heartbreak. it's beautiful, simple, complicated, and blunt, and it offers hope and finally recognition for the strength it takes to overcome that feeling of complete and utter emotional abandon. from beginning to end, this poem is beyond treasure. Return to the Previous Page   pathetic.org Version 7.3.2 May 2004 Terms and Conditions of Use 0 member(s) and 2 visitor(s) online All works Copyright © 2024 their respective authors. Page Generated In 0 Second(s)