Poetry Wednesday - A long dark look

Cry

I have done a few paintings which have inspired poems. In my random thoughts I consider publishing a small book of poems with art but people seem less impressed with this than do I. Art is an emotional thing from time to time. The painting above was exploring some dark thoughts in an effort to cleanse my mind during a difficult time. This morning as I was editing it on photoshop the words came for the poem.

Cry

In the hours between dusk and dawn

I have been taking a long dark look

In the far reaches of my soul

Seeking bright memories among the pain

Looking for hope.

I have been seeking a positive note

Among the funeral dirges

But my vision blurs

With the tears of loss

Mourning the moments.

So very fleeting

Our time together

In the quantum concept of time

Your living like a shooting star

Lighting my life

But briefly.

And now I am left

With all these dark spaces

Filled with endless tears

Next life

You cry for me.

Jacqui Binford-Bell 

August 2010