The Hour-Glass
Youth and love and life-force stirred the sands beneath my feet;
arid, warm, enticing; such a beautiful deceit!
I wondered as I wandered at such amazing grace
and turned my face up to the sun so thankful to embrace.
I was strong and brazen then, convinced that hope could win;
stupidly conceited that this trap had sucked me in!
Now I see the construct, the circled glass entraps.
Doomed to wade in circles until I breathe my last.
Every sin and sorrow cutting deep as I am stoned;
the rain of accusation shred my skin down to the bone.
Blood trails from my body, thickly from my head,
then disappears in mockery; my path will not turn red.
Wading sands grow heavy, my pitted legs are flayed.
Walk in ceaseless suffering? Is my life not fully played?
The will to fight has left me, even those I'd leave behind
beloved as they are, cannot save me from my mind.
Serves me right for duelling with that liar in my soul
whose name is 'Condemnation', whose eyes are black as coal.
It bleeds me drier than this sand I slog though ceaselessly.
Please take me Lord; forgive me what I battled heedlessly.

"Sands of Time". Artist: Chris Guinto
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Harvey Lloyd
4 years ago #27
Sometimes life gets in the way of reality. Its a cross we bare. Hope all is well. Thoughts are never late, they are just in time.
Lisa Vanderburg
4 years ago #26
I had missed your enriching balm dear Harvey Lloyd - a month late? Thank you so much my friend; your wisdom and fight is a true arrow!
Harvey Lloyd
4 years ago #25
Lisa Vanderburg
4 years ago #24
Coming from you, my dear Debasish Majumder, I am honored - thank you!
Debasish Majumder
4 years ago #23
Lisa Vanderburg
4 years ago #22
Thanks for your very thoughtful comment Franci\ud83d\udc1dEugenia Hoffman, beBee Brand Ambassador! It's true; poetry allows for dramatic prose that we wouldn't necessarily say; that license to cry out. Sometimes we think that where we are is where we're meant to be, yet if we can just muster the will, we may see something better!!
Lisa Vanderburg
4 years ago #21
haha...if Rodin's fella ever blows he may have to have an S connected to the front of his creation :)
Ken Boddie
4 years ago #20
Dostoyevski’s quote might explain why Rodin’s ‘Thinker’ always appears to me to be constipated. 🤢
Franci 🐝Eugenia Hoffman
4 years ago #19
Lisa Vanderburg
4 years ago #18
Liesbeth Leysen, MSc.
4 years ago #17
Liesbeth Leysen, MSc.
4 years ago #16
Fran 🐝 Brizzolis
4 years ago #15
Ken Boddie
4 years ago #14
Louise Smith
4 years ago #13
Randall Burns
4 years ago #12
I think that Savvy Raj would appreciate this poem...
Lisa Vanderburg
4 years ago #11
Irrefutable truth you offer; lovely ! You are wise beyond your years and suffering is no stranger to you, so thank you for your words and commenting on my indulgence. Life can be so very tiresome at times :)
Lisa Vanderburg
4 years ago #10
I am touched (in more ways than one :)), gentle Randall Burns, for sometimes in brutality, our souls cry out 'enough'!
🐝 Fatima G. Williams
4 years ago #9
Randall Burns
4 years ago #8
It is the brutal honesty that is "cleansing, releasing, and relieving", hence the powerful impact which I for one greatly appreciate
Lisa Vanderburg
4 years ago #7
thanks Randell..it's been cathartic so I'm grateful for anyone who has read it - thank you!
Randall Burns
4 years ago #6
Lisa Vanderburg
4 years ago #5
My dear Ali, you know me too well! And I know of your river; how deep it runs that you too would feel my pain (for what else is love if it's not also suffering shared?). Thanks for the electronic share too. You lift me from my own self. Thank you, always.
Lisa Vanderburg
4 years ago #4
Humble gratitude Bill King; I had an image of being trapped in this hour-glass.....inevitably drowning. Cheery, eh :)
Lisa Vanderburg
4 years ago #3
Deep thanks my friend Pascal...I am truly touched as I rarely write 'poetry' and it ain't too good!
Ali Anani
4 years ago #2
Pascal Derrien
4 years ago #1