Poetry Solace: Of change and heart

For this week's entry and the one after this, I will be sharing a few poems from M. L. Liebler, taken from his Wide Awake in Someone else's Dream (2008).

I Once Refused to Changed

Finding my way here

In the darkness is

Like being a man who refuses

To change his life

Because he fears what

It might become.

In the end, this healing

Leaves only soft scars

Against a dark night of stars,

Sickles, and blazing red hammers.

Alone, Inside My Heart

I am listening to the church

Inside my heart, alone

On the river’s bank

Where I long for soft wind

To bend around my knees

With all the glory of this life.

I want to meditate upon

These trees that line the avenues

In the city of my forefathers. Stuttgart,

I stand alone in your shadow.

Once I was tired and broken.

Now, I find I am here,

Comforted in the house

Of my birth within

The tender heart of my life.

Have a great weekend! Be safe!