Tethered

Covered in dust

I have no say

Muddy anchors weigh me down

As I’m tethered

Tethered

Tightened

To the ground –

A black mood sours my frown

Endings

Things are ending, I can’t explain

Once bright sparks scattered in the dark

Lost the fun and without the feels

This new year is dead to some

One day one step at a time

Voids will fill

They will

Somehow

Crossing Bridges

My ‘Home’ bridge- Sydney Harbour Bridge
Crossing the Golden Gate Bridge
Japanese Bridge over Takayama
Osaka Bridge facing the ‘Running Man’
Quaint Japanese Bridge – Mount Hakone

In response to Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge

Liberty!

Where to from here?

I do not know, I cannot say

Allow the path to open up

Allow each day to make its way

When you arrive, you then will know

When you arrive, there next will be

Another path unknown to go

So take a breath and do not fear

Take a breath for this new year

Take a breath and you will see

Hope for all and liberty!

Yay for 2021

My Poetry

My poetry came back

In time to usher in a new dawn

To calm my nerves, to calm me down

My poetry came back

To caress my hair and stroke my face

And gently lull me down to sleep

My poetry came back

Those words that went astray

Nowhere to be found and none at bay

My poetry came back

For expression, for hope, for comfort

For joy

My poetry came back

It came back

Returned

To me.

Floundering

I need a structure to my day

I need to know the words to say

I need a routine to the hours

I need the letters to write a prose

I need a frame I cannot cope

Without a structure or a rope

Something to hold on tight

Something to see me through the night

My mind is turmoiled I’m at sea

Floundering floundering

Please help me

Scared

I’m so scared

A tiny child curled up in a ball

Fearing the world

What it can do

I’m so scared

I dare not open my eyes

For what I might see

And cannot erase

I’m so scared

For a lost chance

My unknown future

Thrown away by the fickleness of

Wind

Imagine

Imagine throwing my life away

All the chances that came my way

Why do I suffer like I do

Mental anguish, feeling blue

Perfect life, job, lot

Cast aside, a blood-stained spot.

Dove

Could you love me if you tried?

Could you be here by my side

I’ve loved you all through days and years

Loved you through all my falling tears

Oh! To feel the warmth of love

Soft and gentle as a dove

Could you love me if you tried?

Could you love me? Please! I cried.

Twisted Sword

I’m facing my demons

The fears that encroach

Terrified of battles

That each day invokes.

Night arrives swiftly

Twisting the sword

As seconds then drop

Into pools of my blood.