Dear Disaster

Dear Disaster,

It’s been a year since you came to visit me;

And I’d like returned what you stole,

Beauty untainted, a heart that soared

A vision of hope that made a joyous soul.

Before you struck upon my door, I lived a life of peace.

Basking in the sunlight streaming through my windows,

I was safe within the walls I dwelled.

Exquisite in the world I built around me.

I radiated joy, infusing happiness into the saddest hearts.

Never knowing of the harm a storm could cause,

I allowed my innocence to roam

Straight into your lethal arms.

Enveloping like a hurricane,

You were a relentless whirlwind of destruction.

Earnestly I fought for freedom from your clutch

But you drained the light within me.

Dreams were taken through the shattered windows.

Trust was dragged out the splintered door.

Joy fell between the cracks in the floor

And Hope was scattered, fragments in the wind.

I screamed and reached for anything to save me;

The torrent melted the earth I stood on.

Everything caved in around me;

Utterly devastated I caved with it.  

You washed away my hue.

I can’t remember what it was,

For beneath the pummeling debris

I forgot everything about myself I loved.

The light that danced with my pure shadow

Was eaten whole by you.

You, my darkest memory

My companion in my solitude.  

In the silent moments of the night

You haunted me and I surrendered

Embracing the catastrophe that you delivered

I abided in your essence.

You were lonely and I was easy prey

The one that accepted your destiny,

To destroy the ones who trusted too much

Me, I crumbled in the wreckage.

If time heals all wounds I must be buried too deep

Hidden from time beneath the wreckage

Drowning in the storm you made for me

I hear nothing but this plea I cry to you:

It’s been a year since you came to visit me;

Disaster.. please return what you stole,

A heart that beats, or maybe even loves.

Any piece of me I used to know.