“Pathway To The Outside” by LilyDay Darkstone

Please click Play to hear me recite my poem to the music of  Eva Ventura, “Amargo_Mel”

“Just Me”
inspired by the painting “Pathway To The Outside”
for LilyDay Darkstone the artist

Painful birth, the happiness was inside, upside down,
masking as a growing sadness,
yet hope is what my heart did feed on.
Enlarged beyond science,
so many lessons that led to pain, disillusionment,
compassion ultimately deepening and re-thumping its shape,
until it grew beyond the possible.

Who was throwing these love gifts?
Were they thrown in everyone’s direction, or only to me? I asked.
So many soul-mates washed up on my shores,
so many solitary docks waving them off into the night,
my heart tipped  like an overloaded ferry,
listing to the loving side yelling,
“Climb on.. I have room for more”

Aching when it broke,
filling back in when…