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Clare Coffey
Poems
May 2018
Four Walls
These four walls contain my life
The sum of my hopes and dreams
All looks in shipshape order
But nothing is as it seems
I walked through this door as a wife
Though my marriage was already cold
And yet on the day of my wedding
I thought our love would never grow old
Here I brought up my children
There was laughter mingled with tears
Always something unexpected
As they grew with the passing years
Still inside there was something missing
I filled the emptiness with mistakes
I courted regret and disaster
I spun out of control with no brakes
These four walls became my prison
Kept me trapped in a nightmare land
I caught glimpses of a reality
I could never quite understand
Between the cracks of sanity
I slipped slowly with silent screams
Echoing in an attic darkness
Along ever narrowing beams
I dwelt in the night of my soul
Unable to stretch out a hand
My mind an imploding chaos
My world built only on quicksand
But then came the light of my dawn
Inside my core healing began
The impossible really happens
You have to believe that it can
These four walls contain my memories
The only true life I have known
And it is here I will leave my heart
For a heart makes a house a home
Written by
Clare Coffey
Bedfordshire
(Bedfordshire)
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