Sad and Lonely Poems If you believe you could face death, then surely you can face life. -- William Kite, Glenwood, Iowa
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My love of life went with you Too late for me to say I didn't know how much I loved you Until the day you went away. -- Submitted by Kenneth Hoffman from Morristown, NJ e-mail: kchoffman1@juno.com Editor's Pick: A TWILIGHT SONG My loss of you will be a minor thing, unnoticing, the seasons yet will flow continue waltzing proud with beauty through the myriad months they know. And still will seeds long since been sown, give birth to buds of billowing spring for your death remains unknown to the waking sun and the April rain. Your quiet passing will go unobserved by the boisterous birds and bees of May, and so will wide-eyed infant squirrels clamber around through our backyard tree. June will not cease, nor will July, blithely unaware you don't exist. Ambered autumn bows to winter's bride as if nothing significant is amiss. Oh, there will perish with your passing little of beauty that is not your own, only the grace of common flowers, only the lilt of morning's song. -- Submitted by Brenda Bruner from Webb City, MO e-mail: rbruner@janics.com   Editor's Pick: What do I do, now I've reached the edge? The cliff is steep to the plain below. Miles upon miles of emptry air And no hand will I hold, but your hand and you are not there! What do I do when smothering black Of night engulfs me ... coldly dark So dark I tingle with sudden fear No arms do I need but your arms And you are not there! What do I do with a life that tells the end of the world in a darkened mist But still must keep senselessly on No love keeps my heart, but your love And you ... you are gone! -- Submitted by Charmian Blatter of Philo, CA THE FLAME I'm standing in front of the silent grave, looking at your name, carved in the stone. A cold wind is swinging branches of pines in the dark graveyard without any light. Obscure clouds are overcastting the skies, restraining their sadness over this sight.  Beside me, there's a candle on the grave. Its flame is floating over the gray stone, making mystic shapes, filling me with fears, flying as far as it can, hurrying on its way, leaving me lost and afraid, alone in tears like every shiny light you've taken away.  The snowflakes are falling over the grave. Your name is disappearing from the stone. The fragile flame doesn't shine anymore. The last light of my life has abandoned me, following you up to the Heaven's shore to swim with you in the Paradise sea. -- Submitted by Bojan Prosenjak from Koprivnica, Croatia e-mail: prosenjak@hotmail.com WHITE OF COTTON Oh, the white of cotton sheets, the perfect edge, the perfect pleats The dreary walls, the lonely halls, the soft excruciating calls  I always gladly stood by you through every test they put you through The chemicals, the painful nights, the nightmare dreams and stinging bites  But when I saw you lying there so thin and weak, no voice, no hair Your chest, your head, your thinning back were left in radiation black  My eyes were not prepared to view this dying man, this other you Who lived with me beneath blue sky, and now a man too weak to cry  And oh, the white of cotton sheets, the tubes and needles, rhythmic beats Metallic bed, metallic sound, a skimpy robe they tied around My heart was not prepared to see you tugging chains to set you free And oh, how much your eyes beseech a nurse's button out of reach  Never had I seen on earth discomfort's torture on a berth With sheets of alabaster white, with ends and corners tucked in tight Your rose was but a thorny bush, a button there too weak to push  And all your pain I took as mine, til morphine's regulation time A bowl of soup you could not eat, disturbing words you could not speak  A skeleton between the threads of sheets of white on metal beds And every player played his part, but no one had prepared my heart -- Submitted by Elizabeth Santos from Pottstown, PA e-mail: mesantos1@comcast.net I DIED A DEATH  I died a death but stayed alive In phantom's likeness I survive Alive, yet dead, I walk alone In rooms with walls as cold as stone  I lived a life and dreamed a dream And loved the life you lived with me Then in the whisper of a breath You left, and then I died a death  Though dead I live, I cannot part From love that lives within my heart Within my sorrow I must strive To keep my hope and faith alive  For all the love that I would give I surely would prefer to live To be content, not to survive But feel my spirit come alive  You slowly took your final breath 'Twas me, my dear, who died a death  -- Submitted by Elizabeth Santos from Pottstown, PA e-mail: mesantos1@comcast.net MENDING HEARTS  Among the brambles of a shattered heart Among the shambles of life torn apart When love or friendship turns to hate When words are spoken to berate To pick up the pieces seems a chore But must be done to grieve no more.  Among the puzzles of the reasons why Among the thistles that cause pain to cry When moving on is the only goal To open the door to another soul Walking in limbo for a while But lighting candles with a smile.  Among the confusion of forest and trees Among the conclusion of answers that please When peace is restored from lackluster When courage and spirit are easy to muster To encounter the new and inclusive To get rid of the old and abusive.  Slowly the hurt will be completely erased With a better relationship the ego replaced.  © Floriana Hall - July 2002  -- Submitted by Floriana Hall from Akron, Ohio e-mail: Floriana102@aol.com A TEARDROP ON THE ROSE  A teardrop fell upon the rose That she held close to her breast. In sympathy, the petals closed, As she saw her love at rest. The rose it seemed to feel her pain As one by one her petals fell And upon the stem of thorns, Now fell the pouring rain. Bending down, she picked the petals And to herself, she drew them near; She saw, in the rose, her broken heart And on the petal, her fallen tear. Between the pages of a book, She placed the petals tenderly And the rose, it shed a tear, As if it cried in sympathy. The words, on the pages read, Forever, my love, remember me And when you see a rose of red, Remember, love, to remember me. -- Submitted by Gloria Sarasin from Trinity, North Carolina e-mail: sara689@yahoo.com THE BROKEN BRANCH  Backwards let my life rewind Until my life is here no more. No memory left that I had lived Or ever entered this life's door.  Erase the words in poetry written And the ones in life were spoken; Release me now and I'll return To nothingness and be forgotten.  A tiny seed that Christ pre-knew And sent me here to be a tree But I am barren and bare no fruit; This broken branch I know as me.  Off the ground, please raise my limb And gently secure it to the vine; Remove the clouds that shadow me And let the sun on me to shine.  The cry of Job, is what I pray? That I return back to the womb? To be remembered never more Or visited within my tomb?  Nay, this cannot be, the words I say, Or the things of which I pray. For life is precious and so am I As well as words I so deny.  Within my writes, reveals my soul, that let's you see the barren tree. A tiny blossom, I see appear: Just a bud, I see in me And this write upon a scroll. -- Submitted by Gloria Sarasin from Trinity, North Carolina e-mail: sara689@yahoo.com A VOID What can fill that empty space That seems a hollow pit. When something there is missing And nothing seems to fit. How do you fill the emptiness And satisfy the inner hunger; When all in life has left you starved But no where's found the answer. Outside yourself, you start to look But still there stands the void. The little things you used to love, No longer seen enjoyed. Don't talk to me of Jesus, For I'm his and he is mine, but even though I know him; I'm still not feeling fine. Tomorrow, I'll go searching, And tell you what I find But if my search should prove in vain; It will have satisfied my mind. -- Submitted by Gloria Sarasin from Trinity, North Carolina e-mail: sara689@yahoo.com ONE LAST TIME  Paint me a pretty rainbow and color it with reds; Bring to me a dream to spin with golden gilded threads And sing to me a song that lifts and puts on me a smile And when you're walking through my mind, stay in there awhile. Place upon my lips a soft blown kiss and if you'll be so kind; Leave behind a memory to impress upon my mind. Slowly back away from me when walking out the door And tell to me once more, what you're leaving for. Plant a rose of deepest pink to grow outside my window And after removing the thorns; a cutting upon my pillow. Make the moon again to shine and the stars to twinkle; Whisper to me a word of love that brings my eyes to sparkle. Come with me and dance once more; a slow romantic waltz, And paint again a rainbow bright before reality assaults. -- Submitted by Gloria Sarasin from Trinity, North Carolina e-mail: sara689@yahoo.com TRUTH HURTS  Why didn't they care for me.......????? My inside they never did see, My heart cries......my body is sore, Paralyzing me to the innermost core, The anger inside me can take no more. The frustration, the misery and pain, Driving me crazy...turning me insane, Escaping away, do I have what it needs?? And finally I accept the things the way the are, trying to live, trying to bear.....!!!  -- Submitted by Pratiksha Sadh from India e-mail: prat_sadh@hotmail.com VALLEY OF TEARS  Few there are to walk beside you Through the valley of tears and sorrow. More the times, you walk alone, Than the times that they befriend.  Lonely is the journey there And dark the jagged painful path. Your tears they flow upon the stones That rip away the bloodied flesh.  The light ahead, it slowly dims As deeper down the path sojourns. To hold a hand along the way Might keep the feet upright that stumble.  Alone you see this path that ends; Beyond the valley, a light, it glows With angel guiding as you walk; Last mile of life not walked alone.  -- Submitted by Gloria Sarasin from Trinity, North Carolina e-mail: sara689@yahoo.com I want no more of you! Leave me be! Why are you doing this? Must you torture me? Do you like teasing me? You play with my hair and move close enough so I think you might kiss me... hold me.. touch me... Stop! Enough! Leave me be and get out of my head! -- Submitted by Christopher Thomas Malone from Lindenhurst, NY e-mail: KermitTheFrogman@worldnet.att.net I'm movable when the band plays Able to touch and be felt I can weep when the movie ends And stand proud  But alone in the shower Solaced only in the park Alone, at the market Is when I fall. This needle is dry in my day to day Forced to face many faces Backgrounds; against my bed  I'd like to be more myself To wager my needs in the real world but I am wounded Having done so before.  Just me hollow and stained remembering When someone chose to honor me.  -- Submitted by Christian Wooding from Lindenwold, NJ e-mail: wood@pquinn.com FATHER'S DAY CARD  One by one, I'd read the verse And place it again inside the rack. There must be one that I could buy For a dad whose love was out of whack.  I'd stand and read each pretty card But none it seemed pertained to me. For the father that was pictured there Was one that I would never see.  I longed for a dad like other's had With memories like inside the card But to buy a card that said those things Would be a farce and much too hard.  One by one, I'd shuffle through Until I'd find the perfect one. It simply said that I love you; Words you can't hear inside your coffin.  -- Submitted by Gloria Sarasin from Trinity, North Carolina e-mail: sara689@yahoo.com One of these days you'll look back to see... that I was always there but you were never there for me.  One of these days your heart will start to ache... then you'll realize there was a risk you needed to take.  One of these days you'll look around for me... I will be gone but I am yours eternally. One of these days the thought will be too much to bear... just say you love me and I'll be there. -- Submitted by Christopher Malone from Lindenhurst, New York e-mail: KermitTheFrogman@worldnet.att.net FLAWLESS IMPERFECTIONS You see yourself in the pouring rain, No one to pull you out of the storm I'd go but you'll only keep me there So I can feel your strain.  I did nothing to earn your cold shoulder But I receive it none-the-less Lead me on for it's only darkness That I can see. -- Submitted by Hollie Engdahl from Omaha, NE e-mail: Flygirl19he@hotmail.com The unstable legs I walk with, are giving in again, and the doubts that have surrounded me, are finding their way in.  I needed to be helped, not giving help to you, rains of trouble, I once was like you. -- Submitted by Jordan from Katy, Texas e-mail: darkwatertavern@aol.com WEEPING OF A STONE  In a lonely graveyard plot, Where the lost and lonely go; I saw the weeping of a stone Upon the ground, I saw them flow. The words embedded deep in slate; The cause of death, a broken heart. I saw no flowers, his stone adorn, But there embedded, I saw the thorn. Buried deep, it seemed to pierce, For flowing down were bitter tears. Within my heart, emotions fierce, As they broke my own veneers. Pouring down was my own pain Upon the stone of past gone years Where the pain, I saw remain.  -- Submitted by Gloria Sarasin from Trinity, North Carolina e-mail: sara689@yahoo.com Lie with me beneath the weeping willow And let me drink the nectar from your lips. May my sighs be heard across the meadow As I enjoy your roaming fingertips. With your body close to mine, my darling, Let us make love beneath the silver moon. Can you feel my longing heart that's aching For your embrace that used to make me swoon.  I hear the cries coming from the willow As alone I lie beneath its branches. Alone it joins in my tears of sorrow As it sees my love turn into ashes. Upon a bed that's made of earthly green It mourns with me the passion now unseen.   -- Submitted by Gloria Sarasin from Trinity, North Carolina e-mail: sara689@yahoo.com
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