Sorrow

Sorrow

I awoke to find you here

Sunken deeply as I was within the ocean

Of sleep

Rising to the darkness of a stormy day

With some relief

I will not turn the other cheek away

I will turn to face this day

Much as it holds

Enclosed within its hidden folds

Memories that cause my soul to ache

For this is the crucible of my healing

And I cannot, like most

Entirely abandon the world of deep feeling

For sunshine and shallow meaning

For there are still

Oceans to cross

Waves to ride

Storms to embrace

So no don’t ask me to

Entirely turn my soul away from sorrow

But know this

I will no longer allow it to so completely eclipse

My hopes

Of a brighter tomorrow