For Every Up There Must Be A Downside Poem by Wilfred Mellers

For Every Up There Must Be A Downside



For Every Up, There Must Be A Downside

Written: Wilfred Mellers, Friday, October 16,2009



Pretending to be Dr. Jekyll while being Mr. Hyde

The pain I hide and emotions kept inside

The oceans now separate and divide

No one left now to confide



Your attention I desperately vied

On your love, I so relied

To you, I had never chide

On slippery slopes, I now slide



Once struck by a truck broadside

Battered now and deep fried

Secrets to you I once confide

Tender moments spent at your bedside



Heaven knows I've truly tried

All request I've complied

Court order's I've not defied

God doesn't sleep for his eyes remain open wide



My heart once again has been shanghaied

Great love to you I've supplied

Yet left high and dry

Words spoken, yes you lied



You'll see who's there come yuletide

You can run but you cannot hide

Your world shall be turned on its side

Dragged out to sea by the riptide



Pray that the universe will provide

No more comforting words to you to guide

There will be no more upside

No more for you the joy ride



Alone I stand by the seaside

Thinking of my children and I cried

Swept away by the noontide

Held captive by love and hogtied



Left with only my stupid pride

Lonesome groom with his bride

Standing now where worlds collide

Peering into the void wide-eyed



Tears come and go with the tide

Heartache and I are now allied

Waters fell until ducts are dried

Open wounds I now abide



Placed now curbside

Fate no longer on a hayride

On crystal lakes, I glide

All hope has not yet died



Storms brew and chilled winds wouldn't subside

At wit's end for nothing, I have left untried

Your heart of steel cold and freeze-dried

Rusted solid from the oxide



In this and the next world standing astride

You I've never left aloft and elide

Glancing down from the hillside

By God now I stand beside



Comforted by the fireside

Now I dwell on the inside

Stationed no longer in a landslide

Forward-looking without guilt and untied



Casting now I do worldwide

No longer staying just stateside

In judgment, he alone will preside

In loving arms, I now reside

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Wilfred Mellers

Wilfred Mellers

Kinston, Jamaica, West Indies
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