I am both pain and passion
I am the sea leaving the shore
and then in glorious reversal
embracing it once more I am the sunlight
in the morning a glow beyond the hills
I am the starlight in the deepest night
an endless dream that spills like radiant
light into the darkest corners of despair
I am everyone and everywhere I am the words
that wind their way around the heart they never stop
they only start and take me far beyond desire
where love is lyrical and sorrow dire I am the poem
the poem is me it is the way it was meant to be and now
though years have left me battered left me broken left me
shattered I still have words that must be spoken
I will place them
on the blank and waiting page
and they will speak for me
long after death for poems live on
beyond the grave and may some distant day
exhale my final breath…
– Susan A. Katz (All rights reserved)