When I was broken When the word future had been lost And my shattered flesh and bones Could not let me stand When all I had once held in my heart and mind Lay broken and buried under tonnes of rubble And my torn flesh and broken bones Were merely held together by tiny little sticky plasters And in my loneliness, and pain I could not stand or remember
Too tired to breathe, too hurt to ache And despair and sorrow had taken my tears away Only the faces and colours of what had once been Haunting eyes and voices tearing at my heart and mind My flesh, and, organs being held by little sticky dressings Exhausted eyes looking at where I had once walked The place where my future had once played and, had sang Now like my bones and heart Mere rubble and dust
In too much pain to look up Hearing echoed noises from above I wait for another missile to finish me off But Instead, close to me landed a dove, a flash of white that coo, coo... It did not mend my mind nor my broken barely beating heart Another bird coo, and another brighter one tweeted I could not hear them yet, the noise of the weapons And the screams that had torn everything apart Rang too loud in my burst and wounded mind and heart
My broken body and heart, held together by A handful of sticky plasters that had been found That could never stick strongly enough To mend what was left of all that had once been us As the days and nights of the now passed I felt your gentleness sit by my side You did not ask me anything you did not speak to me But your arms held my broken bones and the ripped flesh Was held gently in your arms And I rested against your skin
Your heart I could hear beating as your breath warmed my face You held me, not asking or needing anything from me You held me, no words were spoken but You held me I slept and rested in your embrace And I slowly opened my eyes and did not see just the ruins The ruins of what had been my past and the future to come But I saw the birds come back and perch themselves on the fallen homes On the broken lives of those who survived
The roads and paths I had walked on before the pain They would be rebuilt once again In time my bones and flesh could heal Or at the very least, they would not be obvious for all to see History and time would heal the scorched land And while sheltered and protected in your arms I stood again, I took the first timid steps into the now Some of the scars I will carry on me always Like the ruins of homes and dreams Rebuild, not forgotten but cherished In memory and time
I was no longer alone, even though I did not know your name You held me and because of your support I will one day be strong again I was never alone, even when I could not see All there was, was the dark, the ruined histories The fallen past, and the blood Of innocent children, women, and men
Now I know that you were there all along Standing up when I was down Keeping watch while hate and pain covered the land You were always there, standing by my side Putting sticky plasters over my broken bones Just to let me know that you would come And the sticky plasters were just a sign
I was not forgotten or left behind You were always by my side Keeping watch and with the sticky plasters You offered from your heart and mind The healing and my future would one day again be mine
You forgot me not You and YOU were there standing when I could not You were always there, telling me that history and time Would be the judge And even when most turned their heads and, closed their eyes To my plight, you offered sticky plasters and Your open arms and, hearts
