I am knitting together the threads of redemption
It covers me whole, but the ends are unraveling
My world is turning upside down
Swirling and roiling like the ocean
Points of reference are scrambled
Clarity and reason become shadows
Rain seems to fall towards the sky
While clouds float along the ground
I try to right my bearings
Twisting and turning without purchase
My tears are choking my lungs
I gasp upon the salty brine
How have I become so unbalanced
A soft wind scatters me like fallen leaves
My shoulders strain under this weight
Pulling me down into oblivion
My heart is a white dove on the wing
Searching a drowning world for signs of life
I need to know my fortune
Can someone tell me, I've a future
Am I a part of fate, uncaring?
Tell me that life can be worth living.
I could find warm comfort
In being swallowed by the earth
But in these indecisive waters.
I flail and struggle to breathe.
Hope is a buoyancy on which I float
Like flotsam and jetsam
I am broken on the rocks of misfortune
need to know my fortune
Can someone tell me, I've a future
Am I a part of fate, uncaring?
Tell me that life can be worth living.
© 2003 Kathryn Spears & Jonathan Conley