The child within.... (Revised)

Sometimes there's a child in all of us just trying to get in..

  

 

  THE CHILD WITHIN….

 

Through smokey clouds of vapor, I lay silent,

my sighs singing softly with the flapping of wings

from birds flying gently above, their sounds distant;

far away across the ocean.

 

Wondrous joys once held, pass slowly by 

through memories I hold dear.
Cherished moments,

dreams of yesteryear pass by.

I sigh...

 

Oh sweet joy! I look toward the darkened sky;

my eyes taking in all its glory.
The vastness of what was shall never be again. 

Time, like an hour-glass, slowly moves on.

 
Drifting by, as all things do;
life once known, disappearing from view.

Dreams, I surrendered, my heart sent forth
engulfing all before me, grasping at tiny pebbles on the shore.

 

Stones large and gray, weather-beaten from angry waves,

ocean dark blue, violently crashing words,

but nothing comes forth, no sound or meaning,
just pounding waves, and cries from birds.

 

Yet listen...

 

Eyes closed, I hear the distant call;
A mere whimper at first, tiny, bare...
Is it? I smile.

Yes, sweetest joy for which I have searched. 

 

This child, hidden for so long,

now rises from the shadows, 

reaching toward me, her hand gentle, kind.
The one I had been searching out, I finally found.

 
Hand held out, I slowly surrender;
fingertips barley touching

'til finally, I become

the child within. 

 

Copyright 2009 Donna Tivoli

Author's Note

Reviews

[Patches I'm not so new..]

At times it seems we all want to reach back and touch the "child within" that lost sense of innocence we once had we want so desprately to recover. Sometime, just sometimes we may get that feeling back agai but alas it doesn't last! Poignant a vivid picture of what used to be kudos my friend I enjoyed this very much

[Patches I'm not so new..]

This is as I stated a year ago a very poignant picture and the time lapse between then and now hasonly strenthed that conviction.

[Robin]

this is really special writing , a point of recognition , a discovery of a key piece of the self ~