Black Poetry : i dreamt a dream

[baller]

I Dreamt A Dream

There were secret revelations
Of an anguished heart

Stark vindication came
Before I gained the strength to live
…To grow beyond the hurting pain
That came As chains of heartache tightened its grip
…Its insidious grasp of my emotion brain
‘Til…once again

My head ached

My heart bled tears of intense sorrow
Before tomorrow was granted me

I dreamt a dream

Memories of happiness
Gathered ‘round instigators of hatred
Where love once found its home

Pockets of storied success
Amid loveless laughter
And the aimless chatter
My momma told me

There were moments of sorrow
Bleeding from bones of Noble intent
Where “spent” Is a term for our greatest descent
Into the bowels of heart break and misery
Where love-free cradles our joy
A sugar-sweet girl child And her hero boy

We starred in a fantasy of wonderful things
Living happily ever after In the throes of a dream

But it was more than the dream of a lover
…More than the wishful thinkings
Of a grateful few

It dug deep into my soul

Deep…into that cavity
Where wishing wells be
Housing engaging melodies of long ago

“Nobody knows…”

But I know

I know

I’ve seen a collage of dreams
Along melancholy roads
That calls to me

I’ve seen “tales of the heart”
And the part where lovers loom

I’ve crooned to the pitch of
Barry, and
Luther, and
Gerald Levert

For what it’s worth…

I’ve hurt…in my pain
And pained beyond the rains of searing fire
Burning in my soul

Yes…I know

I know a midnight’s serenade
That offers more than the stare that lovers make
Or the symphony my heartbeat plays
When I think of you

There is no other (like you)​

 

[$$RICH$$]

the greatest treasure of love is within deep for that someone .....awesome scribe

 

[baller]

yes...but

it is the depth of those emotions that pains me. and, it is that pain that must be set free.

THANKS for reading

 

[$$RICH$$]

and it shell in tyme just stay focus

 

[cherryblossom]

Oh my! This write was so bittersweet to me!

I soared and crashed with each high and low.

Very moving piece, very palpable....At the end, I still felt a sense of loss but also a sense of longing.