FROM DESPAIR TO A SEEING JOY

For those who care: for those who strive.

I cannot see and I cannot hear
Noises in my head are so unclear;
I strive to find the perfect note
Fully believing in many a quote.

So when dearest friends who see
Reach out to touch and reward me
For moments in our glittering sun
I hear their words and quickly run
To places that escape their care:
Turned around – deepened despair.

I know your words speak a truth,
For in my heart I touched the roof,
Yet for me your care betrays a glint
Of kindness so precious: now to mint.

I know my way is to seek escape,
Hiding behind a tight held cape,
Protecting me from those who care
Turning around, creating despair.
But from the darkness within me
I’ve found ‘a thing’ seen by thee.

I’ve learnt to see and learned to hear
The noise in my head is now so clear.
In striving for those, her perfect notes,
I’ve stopped looking in others quotes!

David Scanlon – England – (1963 - )

Scanlon. D (2018) The Poetry of Life: Seeing Again. The Foolish Poet Press, Wilmslow, England. FROM DESPAIR TO A SEEING JOY. Page Number 5.