Shadowed Flight

I cry blood tears in your memory

smoke & mirrors couldn't cover up your pain

I live within the shadow of your spirit

with hopes of enlightened butterfly wings

that freedom was worth the flight

In these darkly hours I pray for light

a sign in vain that it was not all for naught

I press my head up against the windowpane

to catch a glimpse of a flutterby

and all I can feel is the agonizing reign,

took you from this unsightly existence

to plunge into the abyss of forever after

Author's Note

For my sister Lee ♥♥

Reviews

[Siren]

I can't very well just leave a blank review, so I suppose I'll simply have to find a way to express in words the speechlessness I feel. I don't want to add or take away from anything there. The lines come to a close, and I sit for a few moments, the noise around me suddenly much quieter. And then I read it again. And I am silent again. It's like a cycle of contemplation, this poem. Most of all, it is immensely heartfelt and soulful....

( ps---my heart did a fist-pump when i read the word flutterby. that's what they do, after all! )

[Frieda P]

What a truly lovely response Siren, muchly appreciated, and that fist-pump must have smarted! :-)

[Siren]

only in the most excited of ways (: reading your work is a pleasure.

[Astro]

Like a severed arm, once a strong part of you and now, gone....except for the phantom pain. Hugs Frieda, this one bleeds such sadness and I can attest. For those who can only imagine, these lines will express.

[TL Boehm]

so sad. - that freedom was worth the flight. I can't imagine. I can only read and cry....

[Tom]

Some creative double-entendre word usage here, which further adds to the pain and heartfelt emotion the writer (Frieda) understandably feels when reflecting over her sad bereavement !

An emotional tribute Frieda, your sister must have been a beautiful person and someday we all shall meet up again in a better place but until then, keep living and enjoying down here until that time arrives is the message, though only natural to think of those gone before !

[beautiful dreamer]

heart wrenchingly beautiful miss. you own my tears

[Frieda P]

Thanks Jen, didn't mean to make you cry hon x

[Rob Santana]

Your pain is my pain..........

[Frieda P]

I know Rob, good to see you hon x

[Shadow Paradox]

This reminds of a song by Lana Del Ray "Summertime Sadness" [Blood tears and enclosed in those darkly hours] I can definitely relate to this. Very deep and thought provoking ~

[Frieda P]

I like her, never heard that one though, I'll have to check it out, thanks so much Psyche.

[Shadow Paradox]

You are welcome :)

[LadySoDivine]

As I read this, I think of my deceased grandmother. She was the strongest woman I have ever met. She fought all of her life for her family, regardless of the fact that there were a lot of people constantly trying to shoot her down. She died from a series of brain strokes, but she was bedridden for 10 months before she passed away. I remember the only thought I could process at her funeral was "I just hope she's finally happy and at peace now". Very wonderful and emotional poem, Frieda.

[Frieda P]

Sorry for your loss and dredging up sad memories...thanks LSD, muchly appreciated.

[Tai Ryens]

I envisioned a roller coaster of emotions, first beginning quite dark then fluttering high, only to descend once more and have you awaiting another high, which just wouldn't come...

[Frieda P]

Thanks Tai, always love your insight....

[jacob erin-cilberto]

you write these with such love and passion and pain...and we as readers feel all of it...and i am reminded of those close to me whom i lost over the years..

especially my friend, Paula...who was only 27...died in a fire...tragic...gone too soon...the best are...

some? we wonder..why do they live to be a 100 ...

jacob

[Frieda P]

Such a terrible loss jacob, so tragic, thanks for your thoughts here.