My Only Refuge

9/18/09

It falls, this rain of days, incessantly,

No sun is seen but yours within my heart.

I have cut and stacked the wood of broken dreams,

Piled upon the fire useless thoughts

And thrown into the flames my dark desires.

I have been burned by treachery, abuse,

The gifts I offered charred upon return,

Seen offered love reduced to smouldering ash.

But you, my mother, lit a flame in me

That shall not die though the heaven's pour,

Igniting spark of soul to roaring blaze

Consuming all my ignorance to know

That you and only you are my life's blood.

The past is dying and the new world born,

In you my only refuge and my strength.