WAKING MY MUSE

WAKING MY MUSE

Feelings buried deeply

So none could see the pain,

I walked in quiet solitude

In days of sun and rain.

Few tears I shed in silence

Knowing there were more

I locked up my emotion

Behind my heart's door.

The music didn't play for me

Nor could I even dance,

Lucky to be alive

Given a second chance.

I tried so very hard to write

But rarely would it flow,

I thought it was all gone forever

Little did I know.

A sleeping beast inside me

A heart with much to learn,

I am writing once again

The tide's about to turn.

You came into my life

And woke the sleeping muse,

The timing and the distance

Nothing I could choose.

Thank you for the music,

The love and tender care

It touches me to realize

That so much of me's still there.

So when the moonbeams kiss the ocean

And the day comes to its end,

I thank you and I love you,

My very special friend.

© Linda J. Vaughan

13th. November 2011.