Originally published March 10, 2013
I am working on a few bits and pieces to add to a re-release of my book: Who I Am Yesterday. These, of course, are more interpretive and give you insight to my thoughts, my day to day amazement and sadness.
I ponder, at times
Just how you’d feel
If you knew the person,
The you that is now.
I know there’d be anger,
Frustration, rebellion
Is there then wisdom
In the theft of your mind?
I know that you’re lost,
Unsure, confused.
Thus I shudder to think
What you’d do if you knew.
Locked in your mind,
Fighting to learn
Each simple task
Just to show you still can.
Wanting to go
Somewhere to work
To contribute or die
Yet still locked in your mind.
You reach so hard
For the things you’ve lost
The appointment forgotten
The trip you won’t take
Yet you remain focused
Many hours each day
On your books, your papers
Your unfinished works
I’m never quite sure
How the anger you’ve known
Stays locked beneath
This man you’ve become
And yet your love for me
Still finds some way
To whomever I am
Each hour each day
In the dead of the night
I lie awake
Craving what was
Yet grasping the now
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