Saturday, April 24, 2010

A Father's Hurt So Mighty

Love endures but love cannot cure

A memory so painful

Creating dark passion that flows into art

Suffering and sorrow forge character of stone



So few havens now from misery

The lingering of a sweet embrace

Such a fine line between loss and life

Each day moving forward, knowing pain but not alone



Night eventually will turn towards day

A quiet roar of rage in telling silence

An inspired gift of beauty in an ashen world

A flower now lost until Springs next kiss



No rationale for beauty lost

Nor cause for tragedy's dance

Just a struggle for reason, a struggle for hope

A struggle to rise from this abyss



Vinegar tears forge the path you take

The lessons of ruin, the peace of despair

That bitter pill is a new beginning

Of a man marked for life, a life yet to live



The blade that heals as it rends

A Father's hurt so mighty

A daughters memory endures and guides

Nothing to atone, so much still to give