Solitude Standing (April 8, 2016)

In my mind

I hear Suzanne Vega

Singing this song

Without a backing band.

As the few happy

Childhood memories

Are reviewed

Mentally.

Wiping away

The tears

With the back

Of my soaked hand.

My heart longing

For her

To stand

By my side.

In having her

Embracing me

Within her flame lit

Tattooed arms.

Thus

Burning away

My inner darkness.

As I hear her

Whispering

These words

Into my ear:

"Into the fire

My love

Your sorrows

Shall grow

No more.

"But

Shall nourish

Your emerging self

Like a Phoenix reborn

To live and love

Again."

For only

In the darkness

Does she comes

To me

In her silhouette.

Am I 

Able to feel

Whole.

Therisa © 2016

Author's note: My 2600th poems written, since March 30, 2007, when I started writing poetry, for the first time, at my desire, and not, because I had to, for school purposes.

Sigh. Not sure, where this should labelled, as a love poem, or one of a soul's longing, for completion and healing. Maybe, it's both. 

Ms Vega's Solitude Standing was the second CD, that I have ever bought, in 1987. Can remember playing, "Luka" over and over again, as I could relate to the lyrics, she had written, in this song, about child abuse, except my case, it wasn't a parent or a living-in lover, who abused me, physically, but my younger brother. And yes, I cried every time, I see the video, for this song.