Besieged by Tears of Ash
You wish there were still salt
in your look
and the hurt you feel,
but now that suffering
has leaped to chasm
depth of feeling is melting walls,
tears are dried
and yet,
you know there is more to shed,
not in salt,
but ash to come.
What will you do
when pain doesn’t vanish
in cleansing water,
when crying helps you reconnect
to one world,
but you still can’t feel
the warmth from sunbeams
or the fragrance
of new beginnings
blooming
in your wake?
Are you condemned
to walk a trail
of misery,
can you rise above
all despair?
Tears of ash threaten
to take over
what’s left of joy
in your soul.
Their embers will not let live
one second of happiness,
they doom you to fall,
a precipice opens,
engulfs being,
your spirit has no shape now,
you are air
much thinner than a hope
a breeze of lost emotions,
you wish you could go back,
forgive
instead of blaming,
but some mistakes
are left undone
in dust of time.
© 2022 Amy Christie
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A very moving piece.
Thank you 🙂