I keep looking for comfort from you

I keep looking for comfort from you
I sit and wonder if your love is true
You see me crying
Inside you have to know I’m dying
Don’t you see these tears
Don’t you see the hurt from so many years
The little girl that was hurt so bad
Is now 30 years old and utterly sad
No one to listen or even to talk to
Recalling memories that hurt me through and through
The things you ask of me
It triggers a memory
Memories I’d rather forget
Memories embedded in my mind, completely set
The hurt, the pain and anger won’t go away
I wonder who “loves me” and will turn their back today
I can’t explain how I feel inside
Feelings of abandonment rush in like the tide
Ghosts haunt me no matter where I go
I do love you still, that you should know
I wish you could understand
I would be there holding your hand
I would take away all your pain
So in the end, you’d have a life to gain
But for me, darkness is all I see
No happiness for this little girl is to be
The adult lives her life
Taking on happiness, sorrow and strife
I hope someday you’ll understand
Someday I hope you’ll be here to comfort me and hold my hand
Until that day all I feel is punishment
Along with those never-ending feelings of abandonment.

© Angela Fernatt

Posted in: Alone Poems