Closing eyes open

Exhausted I fall to my knees,

covered in shame I close my eyes,

tears exit through my heart bleeding love.

Guilt takes away desires for life fading in,

alone has new meaning under my regrets,

no light to be seen in this darkness now my home.

Skies are down below my dreams killing reason,

unable to feel the rain sent only yesterday,

drought of love left on the shores of my being.



“Get up,” she said to me in a voice so angelic,

opening my eyes I find the light before me.

All pain leaves me numb in her sight,

nothing left to fear, nothing holding me down.

Soft eyes peering into the very pain caging my heart,

ripping the shame away with her smile so warm.

Light surrounds me in her presence enlightening,

sounds of delightful dreams crashing around my soul.

Speaking life into what was so dead she holds me,

making life seep into my heart again.

Such passion, what desire, a beautiful feeling,

passing into the deep with a touch of her love.



Drained pain exhausting the emptiness behind,

life coming into love, love making dreams, reality sits.

Tasting a world of pleasure in a single kiss hello,

calming the fears set inside by desperation.

Looking into her eyes I understand who I am,

lost before the light was able to come on.

Alone with love in a life unworthy to be,

changing the very soul meant to burn.

Dreamt before closing my eyes to sleep,

this touch, this hope, her love always there.

I just needed to close my eyes so she could open them.















Johnny Newell