All The Days Are Gone
All those days are gone, and I no longer hear your song,
Those times of joy are now just lines of sorrow,
That begin when I awake, and they never take a break,
They just leave me in the dark of my remembrances.
When sunlight lights the hill, I no longer feel the thrill,
That once when you were with me I felt so deeply.
These days are now so long, and all the good days they have gone.
No longer do I see the future clearly.
In many things I see your face, and towards them I then race,
Only to discover the reality.
Then like a sudden shaft of pain, I know I can’t abstain
I must accept the day that lies before me.
In my life now lies a space that can never be fulfilled,
and will forever be a darkness that’s inside of me.
For all those days are gone, they all have been withdrawn,
And can no longer be the rock that they once used to be.
If only I could return, to that place of yesterday,
When the future was so clear, and without uncertainty.
We knew that life was good, and all was understood
The road that was before us was lit with sunshine.
But dark clouds came our way and covered up that day,
And forever now we wonder why it had to be,
That so much love could not take place, it was an end of grace.
Now its just an empty and dark place where once you used to be.
(2006)
After the sudden death of my son Chris in Jan 2005 at age just 30 I became deeply shocked and grief ridden, I was also so full of anger, that I had to find someway of expelling my grief. I turned to writing Poetry and Verse as a vehicle to express my feeling. This poem and many many others that have and will appear on this site are driven by those feelings
