Unexpected Lesson - Visitor's Poem

by Erica Fowlkes
(Hillsborough, NJ, USA)

everyday i used to cry
every night i used to weep
i know i should've been brave
or was it better to be weak?

everyday i think of you
whenever i feel stressed
never at a sunrise
or the setting in the west.

now, i don't have love for you
but the bond between WAS true
that now that you are gone
it has made me stronger.

yes i speak the truth
no lies from this point on
that you have changed my life
to one that goes beyond.

now i realize what life is
now i realize what love is
it's when you live to love
it's when you love to live.