Category poetry

To My Mother

Vonita 24 Comments

I see you in my dreams

I hear you in my mind

I feel you in my heart

I remember the very night

You flew from the land

And from my life

I am married now, Ma

I have a beautiful boy

And a daughter who looks like you

You are a grandmother now, Ma

Your legacy to the world

Your purpose lives on

I live your lessons every day

In my heart and in my life

And all I have is one tiny message

From my heart to yours

After all this time and what has been

Your baby girl is okay

Xx

In memory of my mother

28 April 1951 – 19 April 1996

Gate-Crasher

Vonita 2 Comments

Drifting to another world

I wonder what will be

If you will lift me off my feet

Or simply rescue me

There’s nothing more than can be shared

We’ve said it all before

Our pleasures past have come undone

It’s gone – our lust of yore

So now I’m left to question all

The should’s I never do

For when I fall asleep at night

It’s you, it’s only you.

Living Water

Vonita 4 Comments

Let them eat cake

Said the ruthless to the rogue

Let them eat crumbs

Said the prince to the king

Let them eat dust

Said the wealthy to the world

Give them flowing water

Fresh and free and cool

Said the Father to His Son.

Falling

Vonita 8 Comments

The best part about falling in

Love

Is when everything and everywhere and

All others cease to be

Visible.

Hand-Crafted

Vonita 4 Comments

The pain and whippings and self-flagellation our minds can inflict on our own selves is greater than any mountain we dare to conjure up.

At times like these, when our suffering is deep and sore and painful, it is wise to acknowledge our own lack of mercy and rather instead, to wrap our selves in love.

Because we were created. We were hand-crafted.

And while we still breath, we are life.

Timeless Guard

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A whole moon rose to stand watch over a scuttling earth. Ants and people breathed the same air and made the same mistakes of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. The timeless guard beamed down its light and exposed the nakedness of life – a vulnerability so fragile and delicate against a ticking clock of time.

Your Power

Vonita 4 Comments

Your lips taunt me right throughout the day

Your eyes seep unto me I cannot look away

I tie my hands so they do not go astray

For I see your face and hear your voice

And in your presence I can deny no more

No more than even my very next breath

For I dream of you

My cravings are insatiable

You have power over me.

There is no more left to say

It Was Only

Vonita 6 Comments

It was only through loving you that I learnt to love myself.

It was only through giving all that I had that I learnt to take in return.

It was only by accepting what you had to give that I learnt to say thank you.

It was only.

And it still is.

It is still.

You.

I Am

Vonita 6 Comments

I hold my pain as a soft, vulnerable gift and allow it to be. For everything that I am and everything I have ever been is as delicate as a bubble that has been crafted with the most extraordinary care that allows it to be, and for all of my shortcomings and failures, there is victory too, and with every breath that I take, I simply am.

Sinking Sand

Vonita 3 Comments

I’m drowning in a pool of my own despair, the anchor has taken hold of my soul and I cannot breath I see the light above I know there is hope as I give way to a pit of dark sinking sand.