Heart Away

Given Rose
It's such a shame
You've left the hand
Yet I'm to blame

Taken Rose
One cannot see
Your fate is love
My love is grief

Fallen Rose
If left behind
To walk your path
See true the blind

Savored Grace
I will not leave
For fallen flower's
Hidden keep

Inner Strength
Look past to see
Your colored life
Now withered be

~wbv

Stranger In My Home

Did you hear that?
I heard something
Someone is here
Someone besides me
I'm looking around but I can't see...
THERE, there he is!
It's a man. There's a man in my home.
It's nobody I know
Just some stranger
There's a stranger in my home.
He's looking at me
I don't know what to do
Do I run and hide?
Do I stay and fight?

I just don't know.
So I turn away from the mirror
And leave the stranger
For another day.

Abandoned

You said you were my friend
I thought you'd never leave
It seems as though your gone now
Though my mind still can't believe

I thought I'd have your friendship
Until the day I die
When I think about your absence
Tears come to my eyes

If only I could see you
And talk with you once more
Maybe we could find a way
To be just like before

Sometimes I sit and ask myself
How this ever came to be
But I just can't answer the question
Of why you abandoned m...

Oh wait, Never mind. I forgot.

I abandoned you.

Who Are You?

I waited patiently for you. I searched the horizon for signs of you. For the longest time I eagerly anticipated seeing you, but when I finally found you I was disillusioned at the first sight of you. My anticipation turned to angst. My eagerness to be held quickly became a longing to be free. I have spent many hours and days imagining how I would run to you. Now my only desire is to run away.

I can't sleep because of you. I am awake until morning, night after night. The sunrise that used to bring tender thoughts of you now brings the dull pain that is a sickening reminder of all that you once meant to me.

My health is failing. My mind has been weakened... a result of the wounds that you caused. The burning within me has been snuffed out by your lies. You stole my passion.

You infiltrated every part of my life. That's where your "power" seems to lie. You have so overtaken me that if I remove you there will likely be nothing left. "I've been afraid of changing, 'cause I built my life around you." (~Stevie Nicks/Fleetwood Mac)

Because of this, I am not the person I thought I was. I deceived myself into thinking I was someone who I'm not. I am not who I thought I was, because you are not who I thought you were.

I am grappling for peace and will find it without your help. I will overcome the trials you've brought upon me. You will not destroy me.

I know that you are not who I thought you were. I really don't want to know who you are.

~brian vogt