Shards

How do you overcome feeling inadequate?

If only it were that easy, if only
I could stand, hand in hand with them,
the fleeting feelings and dreams I used to have.

How do you conquer sadness?

Fighting day after day
not knowing why I held my hands in a fist,
scars and weathered skin across jaded fingers
hoping to be caressed by kindness
instead of gripping onto anger.

How do you abandon loneliness?

Running day by day,
hoping to find some kind of new home,
hoping to have a place for salvation
only to be lost,
no map in hand.

All I ever wanted were the revelations of faith and belief,
the hope that one day it would all be behind me.
That somehow, seeing this world with my eyes
would prove to my heart that it was worth it,
prove to my soul that the next break I take is justified.

Against my own wishes,
I want to be me.



Written by: David C.