Pandora's Box

Fading memories of a man
larger than life
whisper deafeningly from
behind a brick wall of truths
I wish I never knew.
Secrets held captive by
generations of yesterday
have suddenly been freed
now that you are not here
to defend yourself
All the lies and betrayals,
all the damage you caused,
everything I was spared from knowing
now lay before me
and can never be taken back.
The secrets I never asked to know
now make me question
what I always believed.
Were the years even worth it
that I spent praying that
I'd make it to paradise
to see you again on the other side,
because if Heaven is real
would they even let you in?

Interrupted

She lies smothered
inside a heart that was once brave.
A heart that cried freely
with the tears of joy and sorrow.
An infant cooing with innocence and ignorance.
But one can only stay naive for so long before
life interrupts and shatters the myths of youth
so that the weakness of trusting is no longer an option.
It was trust that fated her to spend eternity
mending pieces that never quite seem to fit while
a moving reel of all life could have,
should have been flashes around her,
dizzying, emptying, suffocating.
She longs for the comfort of ignorance,
to laugh the laugh of a child,
to wear her heart on her sleeve,
and to live a life uninterrupted.