cruel cruel life <br />crueller crueller fate <br />cruelest of them all <br />death <br /> <br />to be alive as a mother <br />wrinkled crumpled <br />doubled <br />and to be made a mockery of <br />by age <br />standing at the edge of a grave <br />that should have been mine <br />and watch it devour <br />ogre like <br />the being to which i once gave life <br /> <br />oh god bear you witness <br />to this cruel joke <br />this cross <br />which must be borne <br />upon sagged shoulders <br />broken shattered dismayed <br /> <br />i look around to see <br />the next chapters in my <br />chronicles of tragedy <br />those scared timid beings <br />pearls of my seed <br />to whom i must now play mother <br /> <br />oh lord! <br />to have journeyed thus far' <br />only to discover <br />myself returned to barren shores <br />exertions unacknowledged <br />buried under nondescript earth <br /> <br />returned barren to shores <br />where cradles yet rock <br />and fables lie untold <br />oh lord <br />am i indeed to <br />reembark upon journeys <br />nature would have absolved me of <br />oh lord <br />to witness this pain <br />to survive my own child <br />i must have erred <br />i must have sinned <br />i must have faltered <br />for i have been denied <br />the honor of a grave <br />adorned by my heir. <br /> <br />my journey <br />yet <br />lies <br />in <br />wait<br /><br />wardha jawdat<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/some-journeys-never-end/
