Brighter star

Torn at the seams

Our shattered dreams leave a legacy

Of disappointment

That becomes an ocean of longing

Flowing back to meet

The rivers of love

We dammed up within our hearts

For so many years

Here amongst the tumult I cry

And then I try

To find a way to stand

Sometimes life does not consent

To fulfil our dreams

Instead barrels us helter skelta

Into the the stormy Undertow

There are times we are not in control

Of what we most long for

For the fates have decided

The longed for prize

Is out of our hands

And all of our demands will be

Ignored

And so we fall

If only for a while

Into despair

There will be a time

For repair

A time of reckoning

Who knows why

Some dreams have to die

Perhaps so we can find a way

To travel via a new road

Learn to make a home

Inside our hearts even for those things that burn

While we wait patiently

For our passion and our life

To turn towards

A brighter star