Hoping to add some more short stories soon, but for now I’m in a poem frame of mind 

This one’s called RAIN, SHINE, RENEW and is about loving and living again after the hurt.

RAIN

Did you know you broke my heart

When I was just sixteen?

And yet it still belonged to you

Despite its broken beat

Did you know you crushed my soul

When I was barely seventeen?

You said I’d always be The One

Just more words you didn’t mean

Did you know you lost my trust

The day I turned eighteen?

You thought the grass on the other side

Was a brighter shade of green

Did you know you stole my faith

As I began my year nineteen?

You used soft words to win me back

Then shattered all my dreams

Did you know you wrecked my pride

Before I even reached twenty

You never stayed to help me mend

All the broken parts of me

SHINE

Do you know I’ve taken my life back

Now that I’m twenty-one?

Inhaling life at breakneck speed

Why walk when I can run?

Do you know I make me happy

Now that I’m twenty-two?

Squeezing joy from every single day

To myself I’m staying true

Do you know I’ve met another

Now that I’m twenty-three?

I’m good enough just as I am

Now I know what love should be

Do you know I said ‘I do’

On the eve of twenty four?

The book of life stretches before me

My world is now an open door

Did you know I birthed new life?

So blessed at twenty-five

Wrapped in the arms of love

This precious one will thrive

RENEW

The years have passed too quickly

And now I’m eighty-six

Seventy years since my heart was broken

I thought it never would be fixed

The love of family surrounds me

My body weary at ninety-seven

Life’s tapestry was rich and full

Now it’s time to visit Heaven

Everything is clear now

As I journey through the skies

We bring our vast love with us

When we cut all earthly ties

For my age was just a number

Part of my earthly song

My faith, my soul, my pride, my love

Were within me all along.

❤