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Desolate Land

My heart is as vast as the earth I now stand on.

I love with the might of seas that rage,

In the same manner so my heart breaks.

With rough tumbling crashes of waves pelting my fragile body.

Defenseless to the matters of the heart.

Pain felt in sickness or battle, none can compare.

To the pain that just is, not to be felt in one place, but destroys the whole being.

To be broken hearted is to feel abandoned by love.

The feeling of death though still alive.

Is there a place where we may go to escape the feeling within?

Is there a river where we may go to drown the pain that lingers and threatens to destroy our souls?

The crippling feeling of nothingness taking over with every breath.

Suffocated by the very air that we breathe.

I want to leave this land.

This land that is scorched by tears and agony,

Ravished by betrayal and loss.

Destroyed by the selfishness of man.

My heart longs to go back home.

To the place where danger was unforeseen.

Where love smiled so beautiful.

So beautiful that my strength left me as it did Solomon in the days of old.

As I fell weakened to my knees,

The wraith of murdered love crept in and gutted out my very heart,

Stolen in the night.

My only hope at this hour is that my heart seeks its abode,

And returns to the place where it once slept in the comfort of love.

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olivia-m-jackson
Sierra Leonean
Published
Jun 21, 2010
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