My Burden

[The Rod]

the fountain has suddenly dried up

and our love is now beyond reach.

forgotten though it will never be

for this weight won't let it fade.

powers beyond our control

have caused us to part

and now I feel as though I am back where I began, but

just

one

step

lower

in the ground.

where do we go now?

I'm torn;

torn between reliving over and over in my mind the love that we shared,

feeling close to you again, comfortable, whole...

...and moving on.

for now I think I'll lie in wait;

in the dark of the night while the raindrops pound my head,

roll down my body and flow to the ground,

and just hope that it may one day wash away the pain.

for hope is now all I have

like a single strand of fiber it holds on

yet tired and weary from the weight.

and I'm afraid;

afraid of that moment

when the fiber,

my fiber,

will finally break.

But for now I hold on.

[Brenda Starrr]

Beautiful.