There Is A Light
There at the end of the tunnel
Mixed emotions —
Tears,
Fears,
Laughter,
Excitement,
Joy,
Regret,
Hopes,
Dreams,
Disappointment,
Acceptance,
Forgiveness,
Gratitude,
Pain,
Trauma,
Insight,
Memories.
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The end is nigh,
Destined to say goodbye.
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A traumatic lesson taught well,
Learned even better,
A cruel heart beautifully disguised.
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Another heart destroyed,
Scar tissue healed into a barrier of fortitude,
Pain a new muscle memory,
That now beats to a wounded drum.
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A love expansively given,
Decades it held on to its hopes and dreams,
Patiently waiting,
Blissfully certain the truth would dawn,
Until the destructive deception hit home.
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A tough lesson to learn,
Toils written in agony,
A rude awakening,
But one that garnished a new strength,
An eye-opening truth forced upon a once innocent heart,
Destruction left within its wake.
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Wisdom shines the brightest,
Lighting the tunnel’s escape hatch,
Pushing back the darkness,
Leaving a road less travelled, unasked for amid a wish totally different,
Until the lasting choice is revealed, much to the broken dismay,
Within the seeker of peace,
Left with a destiny not of one’s choosing.
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But one of painful necessity!
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Tomorrow is the dawning of finality,
Freedom pushed upon a toll unmasked —
As it runs aground,
Shining brightly on the final day.
About the Creator
Colleen Millsteed
My first love is poetry — it’s like a desperate need to write, to free up space in my mind, to escape the constant noise in my head. Most of the time the poems write themselves — I’m just the conduit holding the metaphorical pen.
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