Memories of You

Dawn Thebarge Hill

1998

flooding my mind

pain

war

discontentment

loneliness

despair

aloofness

ignorance

becoming unbearably tiresome

crowding out

life

soul

happiness

contentment

peace

joy

hope

until I know not if they ever existed in us

feeling as though I am

drowning

diseased

spiraling

suffocating

expiring

perishing

dying

from your cruel and punishing disregard

it is utterly

silencing

slaughtering

assassinating

killing

confusing

slaying

massacring

my inner most being until I feel only tortured beyond thought

so I find I must leave this time and place in my life to

move on

go

leave

withdraw

depart

retreat

vacate

so I may renew myself

So I may become

happy

content

peaceful

joyful

hopeful

cheerful

at ease

knowing myself in all things