Pulling Out The Shards Poem by Leria Hawkins

Pulling Out The Shards
Date: May 23,2011

I covet his sweet hungry lips
Cling fast to the fire
I can't forsake the memories
The need of him…desire

I yearn to revel in the heat
Embrace it long and tight
I can't put out the eager flames
That warm me through the night

I know it's wrong to hanker on
In envy of such prize
But I can't train my rambling heart
Or tame my wandering eye

I hear him on the whispering winds
And taste him in the rain
He fulfills such simple joys
A need…I can't explain

I'll never touch his shielded soul
My heart deterred no less
For midnight dreams keep burning bright
And never let it rest

Still I go, in blinding snow
And lay down with the knife
To cut myself, time and again
Forever clinging tight

Fate has dealt a losing hand
But still I hold it fast
And stand each day in bitter rain
That falls like broken glass

I rise each morn, in spite of pain
In search of his regard
And end each day, the same old way
Still pulling out the shards

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