Agonized, I look down at my hands

Tattered, torn and bleeding are they,

Holding the fragments of that dream 

Of a complete life together as it lay

 

The slivers are sharp, splinters small,

Raged edged piercing deep into the skin,

Sending rivers of pain all through my

Body and deep into the soul within

 

Wonder why had not noticed ere

Those shards I clung on to for so long,

And with each hopeless teardrop that fell,

Shattering further remains of a lifelong

 

Have tried for years to see reflected

In their wreckage, a life wholesome and loving,

Pretending, that some day they would mend

To herald forth a new beginning

 

But hold them not can I anymore,

For the pain be unbearable, excruciating,

Limits of my endurance has stretched

To breaking point and simply dying

 

Prepared am I to finally let it all go;

If you want, carry on the burden now on

I’m done my dear, enough is enough,

I just cannot hold them cradled anymore…

 

 

~Glowing Embers~
 

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