Shattered [Sestina]

by Beautiful Forever   Oct 6, 2008


Patiently I watch as my world is shattered,
Pieces falling from every recollected memory,
Shards retracting from my hemorrhaging heart,
Tears leaking from my blindly wandering eyes,
Dreams disappearing from my wishful soul,
My stomach turns, as I try my best to survive,

I never knew what it meant to want to survive,
Always watching everything I care about shatter,
Trying - just left me with a desperate soul,
One that chances my entire fate on memories,
Too blind to see with anything other than eyes,
When all along I just want to unmask my heart,

Praying for my potential to reveal my heart,
Brightening the dull colors it used to survive,
With colors so bright they will blind my eyes,
Painfully knowing that this too will shatter,
Leaving my hopes to fade away as a memory,
Known only to my broken yet, everlasting soul,

A spot of sunlight shines upon my dark soul,
Trying to show love a new path to my heart,
I know well the old path that is now a memory,
Erased as I was torturing hope to survive,
Constantly interrogating it until it - shattered,
I've witnessed the death of hope with my eyes,

With tears of blood dripping from my eyes,
I cry from the dreams that vanished my soul,
Believing in them until I felt them shatter,
Leaving these broken shards to stab my heart,
Now my heart is beating just to survive...
Trembling with the fear of becoming a memory,

How could I risk my life becoming a memory?
Suffering from pain I can not see with my eyes,
Why is everything around me a path to survive?
Distracted from the aching of my fragile soul,
Will I ever be able to truly follow my heart?
Another risk to take for my life to shatter,

One day the hardship of survival will be a memory,
I will watch these fears shatter with my own eyes,
Then force my soul to follow my determined heart...

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