new beginnings!

Its been a while since i wrote but feel as if i need to get back to that one thing that has always helped me cope with anything life has thrown at me-words. When i came to the uk 2 years back it was a lonely and scary road that i needed to tread but like everything in life it was self inflicted. Yet if i had not come here i wont have become the person i find i have become today. I took refuge in poetry umpteenth times while i tried to find my way in this new life and on a particularly unhappy day decided things needed to change. More than anything my outlook needed to change. So i sat down like old times and wrote what i needed myself to hear,and over the months I've kept that poem as a reminder for myself that every cloud does indeed have a silver lining!

New beginnings!

ashes to ashes, dust to dust
another relationship rusts
silence screams the pain
tears flow free, but all in vain

sand in her hand, she holds
to let go, she moves ahead, and bolts
the stars witness her plight
the moon wonders if she actually might

but then the wind blows softer now
singing a song, telling her how...
she embraces the light morning brings
the sand blows away, she lets go of the sins

she steps back and knows
in life, happiness and sorrow, both flows
she looks at the footprint in the sand
and walks the same path, this time, with an empty hand

but she knows shes not alone
there are still stories left untold
things to see and behold
changes to accept and mold

a long awaited smile stretches a mile
shes been unhappy now for a while
but to new beginnings shes bows
no more who, when or hows

as she hears the stories of the birds
people walk past in herds
hurt and fear masked by their smiles
with unfulfilled dreams piled

her heart full of love she looks
trying to access what life took
but she knows now to count her blessings, not her loss
and never again will she be lost!