LIKE WATERFALLS

by ROXANA MARQUIN - Not entered


THEY WERE FELT BEFORE FALLING
THOUGH THERE WAS NO HOLDING BACK
A STRUGGLE WITHIN ME 
THEN THEY BEGAN
SLOWLY AT FIRST
THEN MULTIPLYING
UNTIL THEY HURT.

DOWN MY FACE THEY GUSHED
LIKE MAJESTIC WATERFALLS
STRONG AND IMPOSING
EXPOSING MY FEARS
LEAVING ME HOPELESS, WEAK
WEEPING LIKE A CHILD
MY WORST FEARS COME TRUE
I'M DROWNING IN THEM.

I'M HEARTBROKEN AND TORN
BUT COMING UP FOR AIR
FROM MY MELANCHOLIES
FROM THEM
MY OWN WATERFALLS.

Reason for writing:

    
I WROTE THIS POEM TO DESCRIBE THE WAY I FELT WHEN I WAS CRYING DESPERATELY.  I FELT OVERWHELMED BY THE TEARS- LIKE WATERFALLS.    

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Date created: 1999-02-08 16:19:25
Last updated: 2021-03-03 14:40:53
Poem ID: 51737

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