Shadowed Forests of the Past

A spoken word poem, © 19 September 2014, by D. Denise Dianaty

Bad old, dark places…

Places where my life no longer dwells…

Looking back upon the past…

That wasting, dark, drear past…

Come words from a long ago

Where my soul no longer cowers.

A place of wrenching loneliness 

always on the edge of light,

waiting to drag me back…

back into it's embrace….

I just kept trying to hold on, 

trying to hold out for love; 

But, every day that passed without it, 

Loneliness lurked to overwhelm.

And, darker still, monsters lurked…

Monsters lurked at every… every turn…

Soul shattering dramas spun out

in relentless perversions of hope.

Until that pivotal moment…

that time when change began…

Change began and Hope was born…

Hope born anew within my breast.

In that Hope, on angel’s breath…

An angel-friend led me forward.

She led me through the dark

and back to light and Faith.

I learned the true Me…

the truest Me I was meant to be

And learning Me, I learned Love.

Learning Love, I learned to love.

It's a truly blessed state…

In brilliant shining sunlight…

A place of laughter and love and joy…

Such have I found for myself…

After the long, dark road through tortured, 

shadowed forests of the past.

Reviews

[jacob erin-cilberto]

i love this...and certainly relate...even with all of the relationships that did not work out in the past and caused such pain.....i now can thank those people and those relationships...the past pain makes for present writes.
and not so dark a forest, now.
j..

[MomzillaNC]

Thank you, Jacob. Yes, it's certain true that those past painful times make us value happy nows so much more. I've often said, if I could go back, I would fear changing anything -- that I would not change a single hurt… would again suffer every crushing blow not to miss out on my now.

[The Rock And Roll Cowbo..]

Love is magnificent at healing a heartbreak that leaves no scar.

[MomzillaNC]

Yes, nothing else can heal those heart-wounds. Thank you.

[Robert Trakofler]

Pretty pretty pretty huh so there yes it is pretty:) you found a fine pretty place to thrive indeed

[MomzillaNC]

Thank you, Robert.

[Pryde Foltz]

A strong and glorious write of self discovery and the way back to love. The spoken word was wonderful too:)

[MomzillaNC]

Thanks so much, Pryde. From you, given how much I respect your own spoken word projects, I am deeply honored.