What matters most is how well you walk through the fire ~ Charles Bukowski
From The Los Angeles Poets, Lisa Cherry is one who's writing reflects the day to day chronicle of life and love in Los Angeles. A poem can speak as a prayer and is much in order when resignation and simple faith encompasses the current sentiments of life for many these days.
Intangible
I allude to a presence yet
am consumed by
empty isolation
exhausted by
self obsessed fear
Am blinded by the lie
desperate to
escape deception
to be able to feel
that which gave me life
that beats my heart
and gives me breath
they say I we are
promised freedom
what I have is a
gnawing emptiness
lost in illusion
essentially ineffectual
in creation of my
own happiness
my own love
overwhelmed
by a world
I don't understand
trapped in my mind
I want to know
yet doubt
you are
everything and everywhere
I need to know
to hear you
to feel a presence within
my heart and mind
I want to feel your touch
giving me life
giving me strength
to unlock my heart
my life
my love
to set me free
I offer myself to thee
~ Lisa Cherry
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