Deep Love Poems by Candice James - HTML preview

Prayers   

© Candice James, Poet Laureate Emerita

     New Westminster, BC CANADA

I prayed for you. 

You came; stayed awhile

and then left me alone

in the middle of a rain forest, heavy with tears,

pacing in circles without a compass.

The world was full of forgetting,

but I was full of remembering:

Broken promises.

Contracts signed with invisible ink.

Deep scars and shallow sleepless nights.

The truth is you are not here;

and yet, you are always here,

inside the raw red heartbeat of night,

and the long, wet tears of day.

Weary, and yet somehow renewed,

I found myself standing

outside of this rain, these tears,

and I found myself praying

I’d find this forest

and you again.

Blessed are those prayers

that remain

unanswered.