Wednesday, April 23, 2014

THE DARKER SIDE OF LIFE


i'm tired of the fear, the hate, the bitterness.
't has sucked and spit out all 
that once was good and fair.
it feels like we've become its prisoners.
't left each of us confined to our solitary cells.
'peaceless', alone and without any love.
contemptuous of life and waiting,
no, even hoping we could finally die....
how did we get here, to this hellish place?
was all of it for nothing then? 
if that were true, why live another day?


April 23. 2014 (edited version)  © Corinne Wesley 

CONTEMPLATING LIFE

spent most of last night looking back
behind me over my shoulder
at that extended string of lives
which are the chapters of my life
some of them easily remembered
some faded, half-forgotten
others almost impossible to recall
each was created on the smoldering ashes
of the last one that came before
and each one made more fragile
by an increasing creeping lack of hope
i asked myself why live so many
when all i ever wished for was just one
one that would never let me down 
instead i lost a part of me in every single pyre
it's no surprise that now i'm on the edge
helplessly watching while i fall to pieces
and what is left me is all burned out


(edited version) april 23. 2014 © Corinne Wesley