Why does sadness surrounds me? <br /> <br />Why are my eyes wet with tears? <br /> <br />Why is joy absent from my heart? <br /> <br />Why emptiness abides <br /> <br />where there once was abundance? <br /> <br />With each departure part of me departed <br /> <br />part i can not retrieve <br />. <br />Gone forever in a basket <br /> <br />were memories are gathered <br /> <br />collecting dust and cobwebs. <br /> <br />Revisited only by ponderings. <br /> <br />When the heart is yearning; <br /> <br />to touch, to hold, to see, to hear; <br /> <br />the cry, the laughter, <br /> <br />the yelling, the pleading, the silence. <br />Every you were you were redy to live <br />to go with your new found love, <br />to mouve to your new place, <br />to go away <br /> <br /> <br />i was happy for you <br /> <br />just my heart was bleeding <br /> <br />knowing it had to let you go <br /> <br />to travel your own journey <br /> <br />For i had my time <br /> <br />and i did my best <br /> <br />Now, i know you must do the rest. <br /> <br />Your calling was stronger <br /> <br />then my holding. <br /> <br />And i don't want to cling <br /> <br />i want you to have the best of everything.<br /><br />Milica Franchi De Luri<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/my-empty-nest/
