Tag: poetry

12. Rain for You

Heavy Downpour

How can the patter of rain move your soul so?

And the silence of the earth turn your mind on low?

How can the sound calm your very core?

And lead you to rest at sadnesses’ flowing shore?

Yet, how can you yearn for it’s arrival, and still wish for it’s leave?

And be so needed by your soul to empty you with a heave?

K. Aldaya, 4/21/03

Picture:  Photographer Unknown; http://nowiknow.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/rain.jpeg

11. The Finish Line of Life

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Look, there in the distance, it’s the finish line.

I’m running now, towards it, will victory be mine?

I don’t seem to be gaining,

I have time,

No worries.

Time is going so slowly,

Now there are flurries.

Seasons are passing with the setting suns.

I am growing weaker, weighing of tons.

Still, there in the distance the end lies.

No closer have I gotten it’s the same size!

All I can think is will I make it?

Down the road will that line, I hit?

It is so hard already and more?

How much longer to the end of this tour?

I try to stay strong, keep going.

With no gains to see, I’m slowing.

Can anything make this a bit easier?

“Maybe for others”, they say, “Not for her”.

So, it’s still there, the finish line.

An unsure course.

Will victory be mine?

K. Aldaya, 4/21/03

Picture: Artist Unknown; http://dustinzender.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/finish-line.jpg

9. Is Love to Be?

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What is it about you that makes my heart dance,

That makes my eyes glow,

That makes my life flow?

Why do you affect me?

Is it your absorbing eyes,

Or maybe it’s your form and size?

But maybe it is something more.

Maybe my eyes can see deeper,

See the person inside,

A person with whom to confide.

Maybe I can see beyond,

Beyond this pretty form,

To see the soul whom with me is compatible.

Someday perhaps we’ll meet,

If it be in ‘God”s perfect will,

And he’ll see beyond me as well,

But only time will tell.

I think that if we met, he would like me as well,

And realize how similar we are,

Even though we’ve been so long afar.

K. Aldaya, 12/30/02

Picture:  Photographer Unknown; http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2wajaRhsI1rrn5dbo1_500.gif