The Girl From Faraway

a poetry-prose with an awakening theme, awakening from ghosts from the past

The Girl from Faraway

the silence surrounding her

deafens her aching soul

as she ponders on some distant thoughts

that continue to haunt her down,

a faraway look can be traced down from her mystic eyes

the look of a yearning heart

dying to escape from this wilderness she’s in,

 she looked upon the stunning stars from the heavens

as she lamented if she could just fly there to a castle up above the sky.

 

Every morning, when there’s a thick haze outside

Her mind wanders to a sanctuary

Only in her dreams she can see,

As she dreams on, tears come rolling down her eyes

Like dew drops falling in an autumn day,

The mind can’t conceive sometimes

 What the heart is secretly screaming out loud inside.

 

As she traverses hidden valleys and crossed

The high seas in every nightmare she weaves,

She dare not step in to a forbidden place in her past

A voice somewhere warns her not to go through that tunnel once more,

And continue to move forward towards the light at the end

And so she walks on with bare feet touching the warm ground

With robins and seagulls following her trail

While singing her a joyful melody together with the

Rhythmic sound of the splashing waves.

 

Alas! She finally arrived at her final destination

As a blinding light came flashing in,

Towards her countenance

Illuminating her whole being,

Giving her a calming grace

Touching her inner core

Soothing her aching soul.

 

“I have seen the light!” she uttered in deep amazement

And that was just the start of a wondrous life

She created again for herself

To be a living example of one who

Faced her own ghosts of yesterday,

Of one who have overcome

The dark moments triumphantly.

 

Elizabeth Esguerra Castillo aka "Makatang Prinsesa"

Copyright July 2, 2014

Philippines

***poem graphics "Faraway Girl", digital artwork by Elizabeth Esguerra Castillo Copyright July 2, 2014