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I heard you cry yourself to sleep
Slowly falling into the distance of dreams

Tears softly evaporating into twilight
Wounds declining to be shared

When you’re awake and tending the garden
You hum gentle songs to the sunlight

The flowers respond with colorful brilliance
As the wind accompanies your melodic smile

When I ask if all is well
Your tell me there’s no need to be concerned

But I know your soul is bursting
Like a broken bubble praying to be noticed
As it dissipates upon wayward breezes

And I too, am a casualty to this suffering
Perhaps its cause

And what’s really agonizing
Is that I’m lost for words

Imagine, me, lost for words
When I can engrave anything I so desire
Upon the fruitful earth of my imaginings

But somehow cannot break through the membrane
Of your torn heart

It is as if your soul is tormented
By my presence

For there’s nothing I can imagine
That has brought you to this point of no return
To this false impression all is well

Perhaps, I am not at all laudable
And I know deep inside
I am your dilemma

For I can be as distant
As a ship lost in the sea
And you can sense I too am sinking



* I find it necessary to clarify a point about writing poetry. A poem need not be written from one's own personal experience. A poet should have the natural ability to envision situations people encounter and endure. To observe other people's pain, happines or suffering and then internalize their state of mind or spiritual framework and extrapolate their situational being into a poem. It could be a friend, family member, aquaintance. The poet verbalizes emotions, set of circumstances, etc.,into a creative form of expression. I do write from my own personal experience but many times I write about life experience in the first person to gain affect as well as effect. I am more concerned in knowing if a poem is effective and not in need of personal consolation though it is appreciated. Thank you.