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Silent Tears
by
Marianna Hernandez
I feel my life slowly pass away
My heart keeps rushing and keeps racing
My world just feels like it has gone astray
And that there's nothing else left anymore for chasing
Where has my life gone?
What have I done wrong?
There is so much still left for me undone
Yet, the empty hole that fills my soul keeps growing strong
Life is a torment, sometimes it's a blessing,
Sometimes it's nothing but a curse
It's often really hard to change the dressing
On such a truthful, virtuous verse
You live, you die, whether you're sad or happy
Reality cannot be changed
One minute you feel good, the other it is back to crappy
Some moments it feels free, and in others you feel like a poor
bird trapped and caged
So many gifts and miracles life brings us!
It makes us happy, cheerful, so carefree
But, then some moments later it takes away our happiness
It is mostly pain and torture that we see
Our lives go on and we forget
All that has gone down in the past
There are some memories though that we have shared
and that we get, and many more which we made last
I wish that life was hunky dorey all year long
that we don't have to witness any pain and any suffering
By many we are expected to stay strong
To keep everything bottled up inside and keep on buffetting
But, life isn't that way, it's a total mess
We often need to clear our head to see what's real more or less
Mostly I think like a robot thinking everything happens for the best
Not being any different from the rest
What do I do?
What do I say?
Should I say I am feeling angry, deprived of all human emotion
Yet, at this point all I know is that I feel so empty
Frozen, still, motionless in time
Traveling through a dozen worlds around me
I ask myself is feeling emptiness a crime?
For all I know it's mostly what surrounds me
I want to move, I don't want to hold still
I want to move on with my life and just forget it
But all the little torments come back for the kill
Whether or not to happen I allow it
I've lost some part of me, I don't know which
I cant seem to find the missing pieces
I don't exactly care what side of life I wanna ditch
I keep hoping for some burden and some stress releases
You think life just goes on
And that nothing leaves a trace
Guess what anything others did or you have done
Leaves always a powerful cutting or embrace
So every memory, every mark
Is just an imprint that lasts forever
They keep you warm up in the light and leave you
stranded in the dark
Some of them still repeat, and others won't happen
again ever
What can you do? Reality is all that matters
Embrace it and to yourself be true
Instead of filling your life with cries
Fill it with much laughter
That way whenever sadness comes along
You'll know what to do
You'll teach yourself to always stay strong
And, let your mind and spirit forever remain true
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