Once Upon a Time...

Once Upon a Time

12 days later
she stopped crying,
yet the bitterness
of his stinging words
still clung to her heart
choking like
vines, burying her
soul deeper and
deeper

12 months later
she saw the light
at the end of a
well worn tunnel,
her heart still
prickled from the
thorns of hurt

12 years later
she was merely
a shell of the
emotionally starved
creature who had
climbed back from
oblivion, a new life
forged from a wounded
soul, all because she was
set free, soaring with love
which could outshine
the sun, for in 12 lifetimes
she could never be loved
as she is loved now...

Lynn West
(c) 2011

Inconsequential Rain

Inconsequential Rain

Gentle rain
falls upon
your face
and you don't
seem to notice

Your dark,
piercing eyes
see me as if
you've never
looked before

Behind the passion
I see hope and I
can feel the need
to find a way

a way for us...

Lynn West
2009

Bridging Time

Bridging Time

Night’s song, soft and low,
bliss waits in open arms

Morning dew gently falls,
she returns to him once more

Their love has opened
time’s locked door
and brought her close again

To soothe her lover’s broken heart
as love bridged time for him

In dreams she touches
more than soul, in reality,
is she here?

Nirvana’s call is
her beating heart
he needs to
have her near…

Lynn West
(c) 2008