One Day at a Time

Poignancy still buried...passion still dormant...reaches close to the heart, but not there yet...hoping to fix it, bit by bit...one day at a time....

As long as you are mine,

Though living far away,

I can live my life entwined

One day at a time.

The planets whisper as they align,

Fate of this life to be,

One destiny turned into nine,

One day at a time.

Am living in this life supine,

Staring blankly above,

A heaven over me doth shine

One day at a time.

My life a prison for no crime,

My will unspent,

Yearning for freedom no longer mine

One day at a time.

The heart is now an empty shrine,

Echoing loud in hollowness,

I seek refuge in place divine

One day at a time.

Awaiting happiness sublime,

Searing though a blinding pain,

A misery I cannot define; 

One day at a time.

Life is into death combine,

Tortured in its own effort

To heal whole, not split in twine

One day at a time.

Farewell to the life I knew,

Reshaped by experience anew,

Burying memories that make me pine

One day at a time.

Author's Note

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Reviews

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~ well... there's no need to rescue this poem... it's a mellifluous heartsong... about love, loss and then recovery... ~ i loved the repetition of the expression "one day at a time"... and i loved all the philosophical insights into the process that all of us have been through at one point in time or another... ~ there's enough light in the universe for us to seek... ~ due diligence and patience always pay... ~ sometimes it's really tough to reconstruct oneself after one is shattered... but it's never impossible... at least that's how it's with me... :)