"Like Still Waters"

The pain of hurt comes in waves.

I surf on high tides.

I suffocate in low.

Like fish out of water.

Some say you get more tougher with time...

With each strike to the heart.

Some don't know me....or know me well.

I get more tender,

Till meat falls off my bones.

I fight the lump in my throat,

The swelling of my eyes,

The quivering of my lips,

Until I no longer can.

As a dam violently bursts,

So do my tears.

Like still waters,

peaceful and sure

life giving and pure.

Uninspired, yet safe.

An assuring place........

Where my soul, 

can just.....be,

where there is rest on my face.

Raven Nicole