ADRIFT YET ANCHORED

Adrift stunned into melancholy

Heart frozen coldly bereft of feeling

Drifting through and towards the unknown folly

Yet a place felt keenly in a bygone time

And whence thought blithely

I should never find loneliness all mine

Suspended as an icicle, immovable

Clear, sharp, pointed like a dagger

To which abandonment yields a crucible

Its bleak dark veil it shields yet staggers

Stranded on the shore, sea stretches path of a lifetime

Between a lost love's attention and time

Held so adoringly in one's soul they shine

Lunar tides steel the way across yet cannot find

The bridge of understanding lost

Not interpreted wisely so insurmountable to cross

Short breath stirs so quietly yet tossed

I am certain you are here once again

Alas only the echo of a whisper yet lost

Arms outstretched to capture and regain

Except the chasm of life and experience

Never yields for me to yet again claim

So I hold you close in vivid memories

More potently poignant than reality itself

I consign myself to forge another treasury

A life without you close alone with self

Yet still hope to discover a love anew

In the sweet scent of an undiscovered desire

To feel once again, my heart not only beating

Yet invigorated, vibrant so full of care much higher

Sometimes to lose is to gain the opportunity without retreating

To walk through another yet unopened door

To pick fruitful experiences from life's full and bountiful store

Natasha Anne Kelleher circa 2015

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