Street Roots • July 22-28, 2016
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Poetry
The Way
Into the Arms of the Unknown
by Bob Muncy
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Her smile feels like sunshine
Her tears they flow like rain
Says darkness is all around her
She lives her life in pain
I intend to climb that mountain alone
Into the arms of the unknown
I know my faith is not your own
But it is the only armor I adorn
As I go, I will stop to lay the stones
To prove I am still going strong
I can feel your gaze, as I am about to be gone
Please don’t follow me; I am not helpless or forlorn.
She tells me there’s no good left
No light left to be found
She points to her surroundings
Says it’s what holds her down
Sitting in an annex side yard
She claims there is no God
How could this happen to her
She’s sure she plays no part
I want to disappear to clearly see
I want to play and laugh and just be
I want to run away and really be free
I want to live, not just breathe.
It’s my life, not a game of hide and seek!
So, please don’t pry and peep
Please don’t try to find me
Or think I have fallen and am in need
Envision me rise, every time you conceive
Me stuck in deep sea
That is all the help I seek.
Hears voices in her head she says
They’re starting to be clear
I see some hope in that smile now
As we walk away from here
She tells of how it started
And how it is here and now
I tell her of another way
I’ll even show her how
I am leaving now but may one day come aro
Back to this very point tracing the stones L
I shall share if you wish, the lessons I learn
But hoping you would have begun
Your own journey, by the time I return.
Her smile it feels like sunshine
Her tears they flow like rain
That darkness all around her
Has turned into light again
Sitting in an annex side yard
No light left to be found
I see some hope in that smile now
For another way has now been found
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