Still Here

Against the wall, this my back

Is on a wall, 

The wall of a graying castle

Filled with the stench of memories

Hanging on every breath I draw

Webs

Spiders’ webs blurring my sight

But there's a voice they cannot distort

It’s the voice that calms me

The one I always long to hear

Your voice

Takes me to the other world

The world that no words, have labeled yet

Making me blissful

That you are still here

Unbreakable

She looks back at the shuttered dreams,

Folds gradually creeping into her surface

And the image staring back at her in the mirror

She does not recognize this face

This is what she has been reduced to

While the man, this man she gave her life to

Is on globetrotting missions with his new catch

“Does she know what she’s in for?” begs the question

Four lives she brought fourth,

Raised two of them to independent age

Two still looking up to her

She is their ma’ and pa’

Thirty ages on, she looks back, four lives,

1,2,3 and Mark the only son, a purpose to face each day

The strength within, can shake the universe

It’s her unbreakable being that propels her to splendor