Category: Hope
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Tiny Hope
From my window I watch cars as they pass a line of box-like houses. A bus stop opposite shelters a gaggle of commuters, the fine April rain making them hunch like vultures as they wait. Next door a dog barks. Farther afield I hear children scream in carefree delight. Spring is trying to awaken, buds…
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While I Wait
I wait while dragons breathe white hot fire into the fields of endless bluebells, I wait for you whilst elves set to work knitting blades of grass, I wait for you to come while Gaia sings and chicks begin to harmonise, I wait for you to come back to me While wizards wave their wands,…
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15 Years Later
If you asked me 15 years ago If I thought that time could heal that wound I would have looked at you – A rawness in my eyes, My light nearly all consumed – And I would have told you with intense certainty that it would never fade away A hurt that great is itself…
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Black Pixels
Just what will be my legacy? Black pixels on a screen? Will children ever learn of me? Will I shape a young girl’s dream? I myself once had a dream; That long after I am gone, People will be quoting me, My stanzas turned to song. But then I face reality, And from my dream…
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Joy Ride
The scent of the leather that’s dancing on air, The caress of the wind as it tussles my hair, The thump of the speakers; they’re playing my song, The bass in the engine; it’s drumming along, The feel of the sun as it kisses my skin, The view of the horizon that’s luring me in,…
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Voices
The voices of my weakened soul Empower forces deep And threaten to drive the threads of life Into dark and endless sleep The voices of my shadowed mind Have drowned out good intent But still an echoed conscience thrives And beckons to repent A redeemer lives in the bitter blood That pulses through my veins…
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Phoenix
I lay a broken woman, Sobbing from within, I cursed my very existence, Laden with untold sins. I lost all hope, all passion, I lost my chance for truest love, I felt the world had turned its back and all I thrived on turned to dust. So in my wretchedness and squalor, At the lowest…
Serena Malcolm 