What Raises Me Up Poem by Paul Warren

What raises me up to feel real again
Old memories old friends old times in a blend
Forgetting about those crushing blows
That eat at you and that you try not to show

For I have felt the strong heat of the furnace
That we knew well and tried not to burn us
And these faces that now catch you out
At those times when they force their way out and about

Did the knot in your stomach return to you then
Knowing it something you could not defend
And you wonder again in your head
What could raise you up happily instead.

© Paul Warren Poetry