The morn is grey and overcast
How long will this oppression last
There is a silence everywhere
One needs a blade to cut the air.
The sky above is masqued white
With not a bit of clear in sight
My skin is cool, I feel the chill
The world I live in is quite ill.
The tree limbs are all stark and bare
With ne’er a bit of life out there
No hint of green left any place
It makes me think we’ve lost the race !
Oh for the days of what might have been
With memories of remember when,
As the heart recalls the times we knew
When children were as all children do.
Their names are tatooed upon my brain
Like loving words of an old refrain
That tugs on those chains of kindness past,
Of the days long gone that did not last !
One’s heart grows old and tired too
With oh, so many things to do
Before I reach the end of time
When life will be no longer mine.
I close the book and ask my God
Why life has been so very hard
What can I do to make amends
To family and to my friends ?
I’ve often thought the world we knew
Had little time to guide us through
We each are of small consequence
And leave to God our self defense !
My dearest friend I’m missing you
With all my heart when I am blue
We were great friends through all the years
Times were we laughed or cried real tears.
Some days were good and some were bad
We beat the odds though life was sad
I truly wish you were still here
For one last time to bend your ear !
MISS YOU.
I see the patterns on the wall
Of where the rays of sun do fall
Tis only with a mild constraint
One thinks about the fading paint
But rather all the joy we find
When sunlight flickers through the mind
And raises spirits sometimes lost
To heights without a greater cost !
This day to me is just so real
I can’t explain quite how I feel
My heart so full I think t’will break
There was so very much at stake.
Ten thousand lost upon that shore
Who t’were not seen forevermore
My heart cries out, I cannot bear
The deprivation we did share.
How many dreams were lost that day
How many hopes were snatched away
Oh God above, please hear this plea
Vouchsafe this day of infamy !
Days come and go, they slip away
To morph into some yesterday
Where yesterdays forgotten lie
Reminding all of past goodbye.
Too sad that we cannot replace
Those memories of last embrace
As o’er the years of each regret
Somehow the pain we can’t forget.
Our vision dims, the picture fades
And we are here left with charades
That echo pain and misery
Of loving days that used to be !
My dearest boy I miss you so
How sad was I, you chose to go
Of all those dreams that you did spin
When did your fear of truth begin ?
Your spirits rose with every thought
How could your inner self get caught
With real foresight that you possessed
What was it cost you your success ?
Who was it told you all would fail
And stole the wind from out your sail ?
Regarding all life’s pain and ache
I’ve found my heart close to a break
Select a path which each must choose
And for this once walk in my shoes
The complex part aft all’s been done
Is sadness that does one o’ercome.
However long this life may be
There’s but one judge of thee and me.
Tis true for those who’ve gone away
There is no option leave or stay !
When most of the darkness leaves us
And we are at last all alone
There’s no one left to deceive us
We are basic’ly on our own.
In the midst of our lifetime’s storm
When good sense and health have vanished
Imagine that this is the norm
And what’s left here has been banished.
When the new replaces the old
And life seems to have gone astray
Remember we once were that bold
But short of a permanent stay !
We have seen the soldiers marching
And have heard all the cannons roar
In the distance, rockets launching
There in the middle of this war
To find ourselves thus encompassed
In a battle we cannot win
Where the madness is upon us
And the world’s drowning in chagrin !
Oh wayward star where have you been
What kind of world are you lost in
The road is slick, the path is steep
Where is the vision that you seek ?
The night is long and lost in dark
While all about is drear and stark
The mist seeps through the window pane
Engendering a new refrain
Oh Lord, be kind, help us to see
Life’s face of virtuosity !
Here am I wrapt within the tide
Of where all hopes and fears reside
As surging life and death are found
Beneath, above and all around
While time bides with us to the end
And God and angels all befriend !
The candle burns, its flame is bright
Lord help us to survive the night
It is no matter what we know
Or where it is that we shall go
Perhaps we’ll never meet again
Or share once more remember when !
Who hears the sound of running feet
Our world reverberates defeat
While strangers view the failing trend
When will this anger ever end ?
How tired have we all become
With vision clear to only some ?
My passion washes down the drain
Promising no, not e’er again
The silence closes in once more
Too soon our Lord may bar the door !
This world we know is dying fast
It seems that peace will never last
In truth it cannot ever win
There is no way we can begin.
The die was cast too long ago
There’s no route left to touch or grow
How sad that we have come this far
To barely reach or touch the bar.
We’ll bow our heads in feigned surprise
Since we have caused our own demise !
The early morning fog begins to clear
I hear each leaf’s staccato on the ear
The wind whips through the clutter at the curb
While seeming to declare, do not disturb
The hollowed silence of forgotten days
Now echoes through this empty canyoned maze !
The world we knew, today becomes the “used to be”
To leave us with sensations of futility
Times change and fade into this generation lost
Where one can never learn what is the total cost
Farewell to dreamers, writers, artists and their kind
They have a need of safe environments to find !
At times I find myself uptight
Caught in a terror of the night
I cannot rest or close my eyes
Recapturing sweet sleep’s reprise.
The angels have deserted me
My world is wrapt in apathy
There is no answer to be found
Help me to turn the mood around !
My heart flies high on silvered wings
As I embrace rememberings
For all on earth I have not seen
And places that I haven’t been.
Like memories forever lost
It matters not whate’er the cost
Some visions I will never know
Are those that I choose to forego !
Does man get lost in hopes that are not fair
While ever wanting to seek paradise,
As trees lift up their arms to God in prayer
Are men then left alone to their device ?
Life has a vast divide existing there
To reach in darkness feeling no alarm
For man’s oft judged by trappings he may wear
And so has learnt how to evade this harm ?
But still in God’s lost idyllic garden
Where fragrant roses will forever bloom
Lie shadows of those soon forgotten
Not unlike whispers in a silent room !
When I was young I fell in love
What was it I was thinking of
New fallen snow and frosty air
What did I see that wasn’t there ?
I was in love with winter’s spell
Cozy firesides if truth can tell
And as it happened I was lost
In passion strong that took its course.
I really thought our dreams came true
That you and I shared the same view
The winter once more brought the snow
Those fields of white began to grow.
But snow like life does fade away
To make room for another day
So like that snowman shrinking there
Some love just melts into the air !
There is a road that leads somewhere
But I don’t know if I’ll get there
Its pathway is so long and bleak
Yet will it hold the aim I seek ?
I cannot find a moment’s rest
Seems life is just one endless quest
As on and on this weary trail
I struggle but to no avail !
When I was young and just a lass
I found a lovely bead of glass
Its color was the purest gold
The shape was bevelled and quite old.
I’d often thought from whence it came
And did its owner have a name
How foolish now as I recall
It hid amongst the leaves that fall.
But such a girl I was back then
I thought about it not again
For beads of glass without a home
Are objects of forgotten tome.
We cannot find the rest of it
And only have the smallest bit
‘Twould be a waste of time and care
To seek whatever once was there !
There are those thoughts that slip away
Into the realm of yesterday
Deep hidden midst one’s memory
Like moments caught in reverie
At times drawn from the saddened past
To seek those dreams that did not last !
The fall just seems to crisp one up
Like cocoa in a steaming cup
The air is brisk the odor sweet
I felt my heart, it skipped a beat.
The years are ending far too soon
My fondest wishes sadly hewn
And left to nought piled in a heap
While dreams undone have gone to sleep !
Why can’t I remember or recall
All those precious times when I was small
When I sat upon my daddy’s knee
As he held me tight and talked to me ?
These memories are melting away
Just like my life, drip by drip each day
Oh what I’d give to capture it all
Sweet memories from when I was small !
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Claire V. Bogdanos 