One of my daughters has cast me aside
And left me for dead in the street,
She has forgotten, but I never will
My sharing of her first heartbeat.
Over the years much water has flowed
Under the bridge of despair,
She left me flound'ring, weeping and lost.
All of my wounds were laid bare.
.
The floodgates were open and all the heartache
Was choking and holding me down.
I couldn't get up from my place on the ground
I really believed I would drown,
Drown in the sorrow and mem'ries of joy
Thoughts of her always awaken,
Indifference now is what she offers me
No love from her, I was mistaken.
Why she's rejected me I'll never know,
For silence is all she will speak.
There's no resolution, no solace in sight
Wherever I search and I seek.
Her back is turned on me, no warmth emanates
Compassion has fled from her heart.
Don't want to give up on her no matter what,
Whatever the time we're apart.
If I try to write to her any of this
She thinks it's emotional dross,
She does not want what I have to give,
She scorns me and my sense of loss.
So what can I do, despair or deride,
Has hope disappeared is it dead?
Is there a flicker still left in my heart
No, just grief and sadness instead.
So maybe at last I will move from the place
Where she left me dead on the ground,
Rise up like the Phoenix, get on with my life,
No more am I paralysed and bound.
For time is a healer and time is now past
And the love that I felt for her gone,
She's killed the emotions by her disregard
And all is now said and it's done.
This was previously Poem in Progress but is now completed.
