It’s easy to feel lost
In a world so grand
With thousands of people
Who cannot understand
We’re just one small speck
In a universe so vast
The memory of our lives
Will someday be left in the past
So be all that you can
In this brief life you’ve been given
And don’t ever forget
To spend each day truly livin
Always remember this
It’s never too late to start anew
And try to give everyone in your life
The very best of you
© 2018 Michelle Cook
Today is just
Another tomorrow
A chance to forget
Those long lost sorrows
Stepping back
From the fractured view
Leaving behind wild nights
Of a foolish hue
Summers past
Often filled with drunken rambling
All those frozen moments
Of risky gambling
Thank god those days
Are over and gone
And we’ve second chances
To finally move on
© 2018 Michelle Cook
Writing prompts: Fractured view, Another tomorrow, Step back, Wild nights, Summers past, Drunken rambling, Frozen moments.
Hope whispered a promise
Quietly in her ear
Reminding her that happiness
Would eventually draw near
© 2018 Michelle Cook
Her eyes
A sea of uncertainty
Revealed a torrid past
Of waves not easily reckoned with
For the fervent tide was still there
Lingering on the isolated shore
And the longer he gazed
Into her peridot eyes
The more he realized
Just how deep and vast
The ocean really was
Which separated him from her
© 2018 Michelle Cook
I’m still trying to forget
Sweep the rubble under the mat
Dust off the cushions
Where you once sat
But the ruins still stand
Weathered by all the storms
And my heart still feels
Ambivalent and torn
I pray that one day
The past will be buried deep
But the mountains which remain
Seem almost too steep
And I wonder where we’ll be
In the years ahead
Surely scaling those mountains
Or be lost instead
© 2018 Michelle Cook
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