I watch the street as strangers pass
Across my kitchen’s window glass
It’s one by one as they pass by
They seem so sad, I want to cry
Can it be true, is this the end
Including all, both foe and friend ?
BORN TO DIE ( 2020) 2020/03/21
My heart calls out His holy name
And searches for the way He came
To Calvary onto the cross
To suffer there man’s greatest loss,
But who am I to question why
The Son of God was born to die !
LOST THE RACE ( 2020 ) 2020/02/27
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 !
SANCTITY ( 2020 ) 2020/01/08
Millions of dreams have gone astray
Because of wars we fight each day
When does it end, shall we survive
What must we do to keep alive ?
So many innocents to save
By heroes who have filled each grave
And what of all the families
Left behind with but memories ?
Of fathers, sons and daughters too
Who gave themselves in lieu of you
Bless them all and promise to be
Defenders of their sanctity !
WHERE TO GO ( 2020 ) 2020/01/03
The tears I shed are not for me
But for all those who used to be
Part of our world now gone astray
Like ashes of life’s yesterday.
Once each possessed a name and face
And came from a familial place
They lived, they loved, they breathed the air
And met the destiny all share.
How strange that we who’ve stayed behind
Have yet our destinies to find
With nought a hint of what comes next
Of where to go or whom to text !
AMEN.
TEMPORARY ( 2019 ) 2019/12/14
At times I try so very hard
For all my sadness to discard
To smile and bring my life on track
And pray to lure good humor back.
Our lives are but a series of
Moments of fear, joy, tears and love
However tough the times may be
It’s always just temporary !
EVERYTHING ENDS WITH A KISS ( 2019 ) 2019/11/27
My life is strained and hard to bear
Too many stories left to share
A little up, a little down
A happy smile, a tiny frown.
Some days are great and others sad
As life is full of good and bad
Tears are there in the midst of bliss
Where everything ends with a kiss !
FINAL REST ( 2019 ) 2019/09/08
When first I held you in my arms
My sweetest child so full of charm
You stole my heart and my soul too
Like no one person e’er could do
I never thought that life would be
Full of this joy you’ve brought to me.
In all the years you did not fail
Or steal the wind out of my sail
We’ve weathered every sort of storm
And kept our lives about the norm
Tis tragic that you couldn’t stay
Wherein at last my heart will lay !
OUR SAD CUP ( 2019 ) 2019/08/12
When I was young, my dad he died
And left us so dried up inside
There was no way to help explain
The basic anguish or the pain,
Through all these years we’ve hid it well
And never did that sadness tell
It’s simply there reminding me
Of all that life once used to be
It’s too late now, none can catch up
This heritage is our sad cup !
TIS DONE ( 2019 ) 2019/08/04
Our lives are full of sadness and things that have gone astray
For who can face the madness and the pain of yesterday
Oh Lord, we do miss the dreams that have come and gone away
But who can bear this agony we live with day by day ?
IT’S OVER ( 2019 ) 2019/08/01
There are no bridges left to cross
Nor any mountains left to climb
It’s too late now to pitch and toss
Because we have run out of time.
There is no point in looking back
The curtains drawn, the page is blank
The horse got spooked and left the track
And no one’s here we need to thank.
We have no reason now to try
I cannot ask the how and when
Believe that love just passed us by
And will not come this way again !
A BETTER PLAN ( 2019 ) 2019/03/28
It happens every day I wake
My early morning “thankful” break
When I meet God ’bout halfway there
And offer up a simple prayer.
There can be tears I must admit
Sometimes I find it hard to quit
But even harder through the day
When I would rather run away.
That’s not an action worthy of
The special depths of mother love
I’ll have to learn as best I can
That God must have a better plan !
THOSE ASHES ( 2019 ) 2019/03/09
Hark, what is it that I now hear
The sound of sleigh bells on my ear
Their ringing sounds so ever sweet
Oh how I pray they do repeat.
The tinkling of the bells anon
Reminding all that time moves on
Twill come and go and leave behind
Those ashes of another kind !
WHERE IS THE END OF SADNESS ?
JUST CARRY ON ( 2019 ) 2019/03/06
Oh sad this time that’s now begun
Without an option, no not one,
There’ll be no babies that you’ll see
Upon your lap or on your knee.
You’ll never walk the marriage aisle
To see your daughters’ precious smile
Behind each veil the world may see
Such scenes will ever hide from thee.
We’re all so sorry you are gone
There’s no choice left but carry on !
FAREWELL MY CHILD (2019) 2019/02/21
I really don’t know how to hide
This sadness that I feel inside
I’ve tried so hard to do it right
E’en though I’m lost, night after night.
The ache is there and won’t subside
And all because my child has died
Love’s all we’ve got no matter what
The grief remains though we may not.
I love you now, I always will
Until my heart at last is still !
NO REMEMBER WHEN ( 2019 ) 2019/02/07
I cannot bear this sadness
It tears my heart to bits
I need no cloak of gladness
This garment never fits.
There is no real contentment
I shall not rest in peace
I can’t forget resentment
Until I find release.
There is no happy ending
We’ll never meet again
No sense in my pretending
There’s no remember when !
NO CHOICES ( 2019 ) 2019/01/28
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 !
I’M MINDFUL ( 2019 ) 2019/01/21
That sometimes love may waste away
When it can find no place to stay
To learn at last life’s saddest part
Trying to piece a broken heart !
IT’S CALLED SADNESS ( 2019 ) 2019/01/11
There’s an instant lonesomeness in the whispering of the winds
That fills the heart with loneliness before each day begins
There is a moment of darkness that dims all of our sights
A prelude to the blindness that precedes life’s true delights !
DISILLUSION ( 2018 ) 2018/10/09
I wish there were another way
To chase this useless ache away
It matters not our needs today
What e’er occurs is come what may !
ONE LAST ENCORE ( 2018 ) 2018/08/22
Summer days are drifted away
‘Tis time for fall to have its say
Before the winter storms each door
And new year springs one last encore,
It’s the wee small hours frighten me
When I must face what is to be
I accept there is no recourse
And from this world await divorce !
BE SAFE SOMEHOW ( 2018 ) 2018/08/19
There’s so much sadness that I see
It hollows out the heart in me
Sometimes one can’t tell day from night
Or when the path turns left or right !
How does one question up or down
Or if it’s time to smile or frown
Just keep on easing forward now
Praying all will be safe somehow !
6 / 6 / 44 ( 2018 ) 2018/06/07
In memory of
All those we loved
Who died that day
So far away
When after all
We still recall
The price they paid
For bringing aid
And peace to those
Who never chose
To start this war
Whatever for !
OH ABSALOM ( 2018 ) 2018/05/09
Sometimes the world is full of gloom
Its sadness darkens every room
The seasons change, they come and go
From springtime’s warmth to winter’s snow.
Days roll on by with no account
Midst tears and sighs in great amount
And justice finds it needs a place
To challenge evil’s false embrace.
What was has been and is no more
Once lost will never be restored
The saddest words that one can say
Oh Absalom, you’ve gone astray !
SYMPATHY ( 2018 ) 2018/04/19
Unhappiness we cannot bear
Because of sadness we all share,
Please help us Lord to lift our wings
While searching for life’s sweeter things !
IT’S NOT EASY ( 2018 ) 2018/02/06
Once long ago I knew a life
Which proffered me all that it could
As daughter, mother and a wife
In happiness with aspects good
Seems it appears after all that
I find myself left derelict
And wearing an indifferent hat
My days no longer kept that strict !
EMPTY CITY STREETS ( 2017 ) 2017/11/15
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 !
I CAN’T FORGET ( 2017 ) 2017/03/28
My heart got lost so long ago
How that occured I cannot know
It was that war, I often think
That took our values to the brink
The young, the old, the in-between
Not one of us escaped the scene
It hollowed out each living thing
And in our lives did chaos bring
We took the test and some did win
Although too many were done in
And there were those, ones that I saw
Who ne’er returned forever more
Oh Lord I wish I could forget,
I haven’t mastered that trick yet !
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*( MEMORIES OF WORLD WAR II )
Claire V. Bogdanos 