Tuesday, March 12, 2013

In the Here and Now


In the present moment, I am filled with sorrow. 
With no easy escape or place to hide.
Unable to move in either direction.
Thinking of steps which led me here,
makes no difference to what has now become.
   Wasn't it yesterday, when everything seemed right.
Perhaps I was dreaming, lost in a fantasy
of how I wanted life to be.
Blind to the unraveling strings of my desire,
trailing behind me for everyone else to see.
  Dancing naked in the belief of promises made
under scattered beams of shifting light.
Surely Beauty and Grace travel near,
always my closest friends,
until their arrival, I rest within shadows.
Praying for relief, accepting where I am.  
My only solace to trust the hidden blessings,
patiently waiting to be revealed.
~Raven