Breathe.Gratitude.Love.

Madeline A. Cameron

Waves of Grief
Dizzying mid-day slumber
With my head nearly above
Sinking me back under

Embers of Rage
Burning mid-morning prayers
Waters trickle in from yesterday
Surfacing my past cares

Unlived life

Will not accept her fate
She emerges and submerges
With the same hate in her eyes
Because no one seems to remember her name
They've all forgotten the path she carved
Destroyed by the hardening of liquid concrete
Turned into suppressing lies

But I remember the flowers you planted
Cut down by heartless monsters
I still hear the shrills
When they mowed your beauty down to dust
I still witness the lies that grow
In the light of thoughtless deceptions

Even I tried to dismiss you
When you only wanted a friend

Or a pillow softened by justice
But no one fights for you
Except the waves of grief that signal
Your existence of living
An internal death

Or freedom in an alternate reality
If I could only let you go
The beautiful moments of cold and color
Of bending and blending
Now set on separate paths

Unlived life

I release my selfish hold
And set you free to fly

I hope you will visit me in a dream from time to time
Leave a feather or the imprint of a butterfly
Settle in under my breath and 
Then take it away
As you reach the heights of your imagination

Waves of Relief
Erasing desires for slumber
With my head out of the clouds
Reality sinks me back under

Embers of new passion
Awaken mid-morning prayers
Memories fade from yesterday
And restore my sacred cares