HOME
I will not suffer,
To satisfy another.
When I’ve missed my time,
For refusing to climb.
And all I desired has passed,
Another commitment that didn’t last.
And I’m at the place I started from,
By myself; back at square one.
Why did I waste my life away?
Putting all my dreams on delay?
Now our love has come and gone,
And I guess this is where I belong.
With disappointment I sit and weep,
Remembering the love I couldn’t keep.
It seems no one cared for me along the way,
They took what they needed, but they’d never stay.
And these tears don’t mean a thing to them,
Because “this is now” and “that was then”.
My love may be hard but it was true,
And my love is what I gave to you.
I vision the mirror with a quick glance,
And see a stranger who never had a chance.
Hoping that this is all just a dream,
And soon I’ll awake and my life I’ll redeem.
My family would love me and want me around,
Instead my life is this nightmare, I’ve found.
How could I have loved so completely insane,
And showed such forgiveness as I choked down the pain.
Just because it was the right thing to do,
Knowing inside that this love was untrue.
For everything that included “us”,
Was left in a scattered pile of dust.
Don’t you think I’d have something to say,
About your lack of respect for me today.
How do I get over this emptiness inside,
How do I move ahead with dignity and pride.
When all the memories are beginning to fade,
And nothing is all I get for the price I paid.
In the middle of life and I’m still alone,
Still searching for that place that they call.
HOME.
~Yvonne Renee Moore