Rising - Poem

I lay down my head to go to sleep

and all the secrets my heart keeps

floated up in to my head

causing me to think instead.

First came joys that I have felt

then pain with which I haven't dealt

I faced the wrongs that I made right

then the ones I hide from sight.

the ones that cause the greatest pain

the ones I hide from guilt and shame.

The sheets grew wet with falling tears

for all the scars that my soul bears

then in the deepest darkest hour

gratitude, with all her power

showed me all the lessons learned

showed me all the badges earned.

By the time the day had come

I accepted those few some

regrets that I will carry 'round

as burdens that I can't lay down.

I blinked against the ended night

my heart and mind had both grown light

like the dark, my work was done

my heart re-packed before the sun

had finished lighting up the sky.

At least today if I should die

I'd do it with a whole-ish heart

for falling down is only part

of

Rising.

- Vera