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Verse and Chapter of Life

Here is a Verse in one Chapter of Life; wallpaper peeling from secrets that held on to strife.

Layers upon layers of skin found beneath; fresh powder scent of babes under grief.

For children are born with tenderness, unbeknownst to pain; look within their eyes to see rainbows past the rain.

Perhaps if I took wisdom and peeled it to its core, then I’d find my spirit and happiness once more.

Instead, my heart is tethered to the ache and break about; inside my voice is screaming, ‘shut it up and get it out!’

Tired of this depression that lingers on my skin; weathered branches of pain and long-forgotten sin.

Yet every single chapter seems to bring the old along; perhaps I might forget if I hadn’t heard the song.

Click, I hear the camera, in my mind to find the pictures; a flash into the past when everything was sure.

Walls held all the memories and closets crammed with clothes; bitterness behind me as I no longer fit into those.

Who I am in this moment, I have never been before; stepping from fresh concrete to an old and creaky floor.

It’s madness, for security, should bring the final clue, yet here I sit with brand new walls and still I’m missing you.

Foolish, I suppose, for living in the past, but there was where the happiness, I thought would always last.

Tears smear upon the paper as I type these words in vain; never will I live within the gentle peace again.

Cindy J. Buechler
Cindy J. Buechlerhttps://creativejeanblossoming.wordpress.com/
My Poetry, Photography, and Journals hold treasure from grade school to high school to adult school, which I'm still attending ... just waiting for the final grade. Each layer of life reveals a new truth and with age, it becomes apparent that time is my greatest rival. My hope is to reflect with words and pictures that offer comfort, insight, and wisdom for a life well-lived with peace and tranquility in the end.

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