Smile
and make merry,
fool the world enough
to not worry
about being polite.

It takes them a while.

No burden is as heavy
as the regret borne
of not learning
how to let go.

Come,
Lay a finger on my pulse
And tell me I'm alive.
Come,
Feel the weight of my sigh
And tell me I'm alive.
Come,
Test the flutter of my heart
And tell me I'm alive.
Come,
See how clenched is my jaw
And tell me..

I'll survive.

In the dark
I fear the unseen.
In the day
I see,
what I fear.

Silence
the
nerves
churns
mutters
and
calls,
murmurs
whispers
scr­eams
and
falls,

with
silence.

The last word was of the rain
and it soothed my aching heart,
I felt its pain, when it shattered
to bring two lovers apart.

I'm afraid
I shall never be that butterfly
which burst into flames of color
and was adored every hour
it lived its flitting life,
I am too wise,
to know I'm the caterpillar
that crawls through nature
in pain, it is never vain
to realize,
the day it is most treasured,
is the day when it dies.