Lesbian Poetry

The time is right

The hurt and the heartache I thought would leave me phased.
I see now that these emotions cannot be erased.
For as hard as I love I hurt just the same.
But it's not everyone who gets to play this game.

I love with all my heart but hurt with it too.
This is the toll I must pay for feeling as much as I do.
So much love spills from this heart of mine.
But just as much pain lodges there too as they both intertwine.

My heart I wear on my sleeve maybe that's why I hurt so much?
As I show this vulnerable part of me just as easy as I blush.
What is the answer should I hide who I strive to be?
But it's only recently that I am learning to love me.

I recognise now that a bad person I am not.
Feelings are awakening in me that I thought I'd forgot.
I thought I'd lost the notion of loving me for me.
Though it's taken some time, the light I now see.

As I step back from my life and unveil my own strengths.
The courage that so many times to find I went to great lengths.
There was no need as it was in me all along.
Blinded by the hurt I was convinced that alone was my song.

It doesn't scare me anymore as accustomed to it I've become.
For deep in my heart I know one day to love I will succumb.
Then I'll know when to refrain from putting up a fight.
But not until I know in my heart that THE TIME IS RIGHT!!!

14/01/05 (13:01pm)