I work in the shadows, casting visions and summoning imagination
with pretty words, for the souls that tremble in frustration.
I appear when I am needed, and must leave although I am wanted.
I am the bolt of lightning that cracks at the feet of those who run out of steam,
spurring them on with a voice as loud as distant thunder.
I sit with the wielders of the pen, brush, lens and chisel,
always behind them, teaching them how to spark,
fanning their thoughts into a blaze.
They shall never see me.
For I cast their Shadows upon them so they may see their size
as I expel the shadows of fear, to guide their way.
I am the Light.
I am the Muse.
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I’ll be here today. But I can’t promise tomorrow.
Sensations of your touches fade, like droplets drying in the rising day.
The song of your laughter trickles along the crevices of my mind,
slipping through the cracks, pooling in the deepest wells of my heart.
Too deep for me to reach.
Together we had sewn moments between us into one happy memory, creating patterns of familiarity,
cloaking my sadness with warmth, soothing the stings of old wounds.
I pray it will always do the same for you.
No matter how much I need you, I fear the day fate needs me to be somewhere else.
There may come a time where the wind will whisk me away, away
My heaviest thought,
My deepest fear,
is that the few years I spend away
is worth all you have left.
That leaving you for a moment
will cost me a lifetime.
That I go for a while
with the price of forever
hanging over our heads
never meeting again.
I see the sadness in your eyes
when I say 'I have to go'.
I notice the twitch of your mouth
as you hide it behind your embrace.
I hear the hope in your voice
when you ask how long I'll be.
You and I both try to ignore
the hourglass sitting in the back,
hoping we'll both make it till another 'next time'
before it runs out.
I'm begging to the Heavens
that you'll keep holding on.
Praying that the l
I should've known
I wouldn't hold.
I couldn't stay like this forever.
For years I tried
to muffle my cries,
trying to keep myself together.
How did I think
I wouldn't sink
And be on the brink of my limits?
I slip too fast
into my past
my body still, but mind relives it.
No one can know
the secrets stowed,
Chained with heavy silence.
Distracting every gaze,
hiding all my pain
by veiling it with nonsense.
They think that I
am always high
like no part of me is aching.
They're love is my drug,
when they go I'm stuck
remembering that I'm breaking.
I take a step,
proud of every breath,
happy I can still survive.
As long as family
keeps on lovin
She twinkled amongst many.
There were others bigger than her.
Brighter than her.
Exploding with colors more splendid than hers.
She drifted amongst a society of constellations.
Nothing more than part a bigger picture,
that no one could single out in the infinite expanse of beauty.
But to him, she was the sun.
She was the one that dimmed all of the other stars so immensely
that she was the only one he saw in the day,
and the one he looked forward to seeing again when the night came.
She was the warmth he cherished
as her smile thawed his icy exterior.
The light he would look for as the storms thundered in.
She was the force of nature th