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Second Chance
A steep decline
down the ladder of hope
Sucks away all faith
like air from the lungs
And I flutter to the ground
to grovel at your feet
Clutching clods of earth
from the garden of our love
Where have I failed you
A thousand times I cry
Scratching at your window
to know the reasons why
you’ve turned your face from me
and forgotten who I am
Still I follow you
like some wayfaring lamb
Taking all my anger
and tossing it aside
To fools who care to listen
All that’s left inside
are memories of us
The us that used to be
I have forgotten who you are
You have forgotten me
A stranger to a stranger
keeping up the dance
A dance of want and longing
a dance of second chance
Trees within the wind
asking it to blow
in some unknown direction
that neither of us know
Confusion settles in
to dirty up the soul
Words are lost somehow
A long-forgotten goal
drifts upon the wind
foreign and obscure
When I lost your love
I am no longer sure
©️Kay Salady
Affinity
I stand against a winter’s wind
Dispossessed of every friend
Reaching out for warmth
No one hears my lonesome call
I stand alone I bear it all
Facing my own truth
Although I tremble in the cold
I must survive for I can hold
All the wild imaginings
There to greet me come the Spring
©Kay Salady
My Love
My love walks in light
And I walk in the darkness
To foreshadow thought
That I will be blossoming
Soon after his arrival
©Kay Salady
Unto My Path
When all hope was lost
I saw you in the darkness
Reaching out for me
To muster up the courage
To rely on words in red
©Kay Salady
One Day
The shadows walk a bloody path
Where meaning has no name
While white birds try to pluck the eyes
From men to pilfer shame
Fingers point to mock each place
Where innocence was spoiled
Long will be the days of woe
And by his sweat he’ll toil
Shadows carry chains of sin
That take away their choice
To bear the many scars of red
Yet I can hear each voice
Softly singing in the fields
A prayer that never dies
One day it all will be revealed
When birds return their eyes
©Kay Salady
Providence
Indefinable
From the center of a crowd
Shadowed by a cloud of isolation
While on the inside looking out
I can feel a silent shout
Of desperation
Wishing to begin again
And wanting so much to fit in
A world that has me by the tail
I fear for all my days
This chase within a maze
Will never cease
And as the feathers fly
Into that discontented sky
I search to find the source
Of my release
Just when I think all hope is gone
I find the strength to lean upon
Must come from wisdom’s bitter well
As I kneel, I find perfection
Inside my own reflection
This truth is difficult to tell
©Kay Salady
Until I’m Free
“A woman’s greatest strength is the power of her will.” -kay salady
I lie dormant
Waiting to emerge
Aching for a surge of nerve
To open up these wings in desperation
And they flutter
Inside the walls you’ve placed them in
And I try so hard to quiet them to no avail
You break my spirit
By wiping all the scales away
But I swear to fly another day
As you cast your eyes away from me
In that time you’ll fail to see
The blush of color has returned
And the fire within my spirit burns
As I perch upon the highest sill
And spread my wings so wide until
I’m free
©Kay Salady
The Courage to Hope
I’ll stop drowning in my past
And swimming in tomorrow
Waiting for a sky that always falls
Yet if I live for just today
Today would be okay
If it were happy
But if it’s filled with pain
The thought would be insane
Because I’d wallow in the mire
Never holding the desire to dream
I must get up off my ass
Be grateful for what I have
And courageous enough to hope
For brighter days
I’ll make a plan to stand
With everything I am
Despite my imperfections
Recalling how I stood
When things were not so good
And how I rose above it all
No matter how very small
I seemed to feel
For when I knelt to pray
I made it through that day
With resolve again tomorrow
To put away my sorrow
And look up to the sun
Still shining on the one
Who failed to see
The roses still in bloom
With their sweet perfume
And the birds up in the sky
That did not forget to fly
And I with strength to stand
Upon my feet
©Kay Salady
Disheveled Heart
O’ wretched soul, disheveled heart
The passing years have torn apart
All hope of dreams, my gentle youth
I am resolved to face the truth
That each day born of loneliness
Tore at the heart inside my chest
I can’t abide to mourn the loss
Of my beloved, nor the cross
That I have carried far too long
With fragile arms that once were strong
Arms that held him close to me
That soothed his brow so tenderly
Reassuring all my love
And now I am so guilty of
Letting go for fear I’ll die
©Kay Salady
Image Credit: Black and White Photography by James
Mocking Marionettes
It seems so long ago,
when your conversation
fulfilled my every need.
I savored all your thoughts
in quiet contemplation.
They still linger in my
mind like puppets held
on strings, smiling down
at me as reminders of a
time that I can’t seem
to find again with you. I
run to them today and
ask each one to play,
brushing off the cobwebs
they have gathered. I
question every one, as
my heart comes undone,
“Do I still matter?”. And
I am mortified by the
silence that I find. I am
so shattered. How can
I still be inside a fantasy
of my own making? So,
I stand and cut each
rope and I pull down
shreds of hope. Because
I’m taking back my life.
©Kay Salady
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