New Songs -- Torn Wineskins

New songs flow from torn wineskins –

tonight my heart is torn again…

So here’s a song that begins

when all my world has come to ends.

— were you The One?

I thought and dreamed you were.

I hope, believed; it seemed you were.

Of you, I was unworthy; of us, determined

 – only of myself uncertain.

And then – the crash, the fall, the pain, and all;

and, all in all, there’s nothing left or certain.

And there’s no one left to call

– except the curtain.

This is loss without the gain; too small was I

to reach so high.

I reached for skies, with sighs, now vain;

Too false was I to tell a lie;

too hurt to even feel my pain.

Forgive me, when well met, I felt myself unwell.

I felt so weak; so unengaged; so very not myself.

My wings clipped; my heart caged,

I felt too tired to be enraged;

now all the world’s a play without a stage;

a heaven where no angels dwell;

a book without a word or page.