Rani Turton Poems

If I should see you again
Across some busy city street
If I should see your face as I've longed to
For years, for so many years
...

Alcoves, waiting to be filled or fulfilled
Waiting in the recesses of my mind:
Longing for the absolute self to find
What goes where, when, how and why.
...

Wherever you may rove, my thoughts, my brimming heart
Tries to keep pace with you: for so it is;
The journey has been so long, so fraught with worry
My body is numb and my eyes blurry.
...

As I lay dying, yes dying
Tired, unsure of which shore
Not to walk anymore.
...

All that remains at the end of the day
Little bits of rhyme
And you who will never be mine;
Who will walk under different skies
...

I have been so many things in my life
A daughter, a worker, a beloved and a wife
I have sometimes sat down and wept
But that is a secret that should be timidly kept
...

I had been waiting
Night after night
Until my tears had
Almost dimmed my sight
...

Take this day as your own
Trouble and pain loom large
The night brings no comfort
The dawn in silence turns mutely away.
...

My love walks on paved stones
On paved stones he walks
Far far from home
He is far away and there is no more sun.
...

Under a dripping grey sky
Sad, soaking, shivering and wet
I wanted to know why
Why and why and why
...