Dreaming of Better Days

Last year, I started sharing poems that I had written during the first years of my career. Thank you for all the great comments!

The experience has not been interesting just because of the feedback, though. Re-reading and selecting the pieces for publication bring back memories and force me to re-live the emotions that triggered them.

Some people find that to be a painful process. It isn’t for me. It cements my faith in myself and allows me to understand how much I have grown in the last 17 years. My depression is completely gone, I have released 35+ books and worked in many different fields. I consider myself a success. :-)

Today’s poem is titled “Dreaming of Better Days”

Dreaming of Better Days

Dreaming of better days,

I have had my share.

The useless madness of it

All will not save my soul.

I cannot keep pretending.

My better days are right here,

Right now, inside and outside

The tears I have shed.

My better days are screaming.

To be heard and embraced.

And I will love them, come what may.

I will break the spell of past disarray.

One second of absence or true being

Is what makes it all worth disagreeing.

Dreaming of better days,

Is not for me anymore.

The open air in the fields,

The mountains on the horizon,

And night falling in the firmament,

Are just some of the wonders

My soul craves in the stillness of time.

I am not scared of tomorrow,

And I see beyond yesterday.

For God willed the words I speak today.

And I am vessel of Love

For centuries to come.

©2008 Cendrine Marrouat

That's it for today! Thank you for reading!

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Cendrine Marrouat is a writer, photographer, podcaster, blogger, anthology editor, and the co-founder of Auroras & Blossoms and A Warm Cup of Cozy. She has authored and co-authored more than 40 books, including The Train: A Short Story (2023), In Her Own Words: A Collection of Short Stories & Flashku (2022), After the Fires of Day: Haiku Inspired by Kahlil Gibran & Alphonse de Lamartine (2021), Rhythm Flourishing: A Collection of Kindku and Sixku (2020), Walks: A Collection of Haiku (2019-2020), and In the Silence of Words: A Three-Act Play (2018).

Cendrine's work has appeared in many publications. She is the creator of the Sixku, Flashku, Sepigram, and Reminigram; as well as the co-creator of the Kindku, Pareiku, Vardhaku, and Hemingku.