
A Page from My Soul
After…
There are dried tear droplets on the page…
I didn’t know where I was going, I never knew…
Lack of direction, they would say
But I wasn’t lost
I couldn’t be,
Because I always circled back
To this;
Impossible beacon,
Improvable living.
I tried, oh how I tried,
Lord knows I tried,
To be successful, to fit
Into
Normalcy, but
I didn’t…
I would accomplish the task well
With misery,
Crying out I don’t belong here,
With words
And actions
A sobbing desperation
Needing to leave,
And each time,
I left, knowing
I didn’t belong in that world.
There was no place for me
In that world.
I needed to leave
That world
Or I would be….
Truly dead.
And so I had no choice
But that what I chose
So
I left.
And where I would start something new
Something intriguing,
Something
In their eyes,
Productive…
I didn’t,
Not this time…
No
This time, I picked up a pen
Not because I was
Overflowing with words,
But with intent
Today was a new day,
And it would be different.
I started to write,
Not caring
About… anything
Except the words
On the page
That is what mattered,
Those words
On that page,
Those words
That will be
Long after
I cease
Being.
Now
I catch myself
Laughing
At a comical antidote,
Raging against an injustice,
Weeping,
For at times,
The world is unfair
Even the world
I create,
At times
Is so unfair
And
At the end of the day
When I put
My pen down,
I smile
In blissful
Enjoyment,
Content,
Loving
This world
That I have
Always
Belonged too
And
After
Reading the words I wrote,
I am moved,
By what I find there
Staring back,
As if in testament
And I weep
Leaving wet tear droplets
On the pages
From my soul.
About the Creator
Susan Loblaw
Poetess...Wordsmith...Writer
I live in Bay Tree Alberta, which I don't think is even classified as a village. Just a gas station with a post office. For the moment, this is where I live, until I can go home again.
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