Could One Love?

This is a poem I wrote a few months ago. Unknowingly, it became one of my best works yet, and others have complimented and given me more praise than I deserve! In any case, I have decided to post this poem. It has become one of my favorites.

Could One Love?

My face was hardened,

Stained by tears

Their salty tracks

Betrayed my fears

Throughout my life

I pushed away

So why these scars

Haunt me today

A child grasps

Her daddy’s hand

Were she to fall

He’d help her stand

A place inside

With envy filled

Where once my long

For love was stilled

Would ever I

Belong to one

But now I stay

Observed by none

My heart of stone

Forged long ago

Remaineth cold

Like icy snow

Longing fills

Emotion’s place

I once ignored

But now beg grace

Could someone love

One stained as I

Afraid to feel

Afraid to cry

I once was hurt

Once cast aside

Though promised love

To me they lied

My frozen tears

Now melt like ice

I trusted love

And paid the price

I caged myself

In stoic mask

Why doth my heart

Forsake its task

To never care

To only beat

Though wander I

Lost through the street

I hid myself

Behind my lies

I scoffed at other

Orphans cries

Such terrors haunt

A place within

I once ignored

Despite the din

Of screams of pain

That clutch and grab

Refuse release

Persist and stab

My appearance cold

A mirror of life

That’s all I’ve known

These years of strife

Could someone love

One stained as I

Afraid to feel

Afraid to cry

Yet now I sob

Now I ache

My heart is ice

But soon will break

I long for love

To be aware

And show just once

This lost one care

Though many pass

Not one will see

This fallen waif

That cries “Help me!”

I lie forgotten

Forsaken here

Is it my call

To drown in tear

A man lifts up

My shaken form

Around him dims

Surrounding storm

Who is this man

Who saw my hurt

Who knelt beside me

In the dirt

“My daughter” he says

“My child dear

“Forsake your pain

“Forsake your fear

“I’ll wash it in

“My crimson blood

“Release them now

“Into this flood”

Alas I tremble

But I obey

I want to know

This man today

This man who saw

One stained as I

He took my hurt

And let me cry

He gave me life

He washed me white

He turned my dark

Into His light.

Skyeler