31 December 2005, 1:29 PM
The year is drawing to a close
and I’m sitting here waiting
for my son to come home
so we can celebrate
together
He has no idea of the darkness I’ve seen
the anger I’ve felt, the places I’ve been
inside myself so that
someday
he too may walk these lovely shores
see this silver sand beneath his feet
and know that weeping can be sweet
This year will see me begin
My third decade of life and yet
I’ve only just taken my first breath
May thirty find me
more alive than ever I have been
ready now to live and breathe
maybe even love again
It is time
I’ve waited patiently but eagerly to end
this book you now hold in your hands
The day has finally come
and while there’s surely more to say
for now
I’m done
I’ll start afresh tomorrow
knowing yesterday is just that
It lies behind me
and I shall never see it
I shall never walk that shore again
though surely I shall visit now and then
in my thoughts and visions
Come now the new and shining years
the unknown and the certain tears
the facing up to every joy and fear
of all that is to come
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