Sift through the ashes of my heart
You’ll find that its quite torn apart

Let the ashes fall and blow away
The future looks bleak and gray

Clean the dirt from your perfect hands
Scrape it from you like worthless sands

Make this day seem not so bleak
Make me feel oh not so weak

Deeper sadness than I surmised I could feel
Always seems relentless and so unreal

as if your looking at yourself through foggy glass
Worry of the future and regret the past

But their are ways in the life
to end all the pain and strife

Strive to be all you can be
soon it will become simple routine

Train yourself to let go
Train yourself to be strong
Oh yes I know
things will still go wrong

Just stay strong and believe
Each trial was meant to be

Instead of trying to get to heaven from here
we should start trying to create it here

All alone in the beginning
all together
all born with future sinning
But I know for sure it can get better

As I start to feel again
It was you god did send

I close my eyes
trying not to cry
after love, loss, pain and lies
I just don’t know why

If I had just one wish
It’d be you
cause just one kiss
and I’d fall for you

Please my girl my best friend don’t leave my side
you give me my courage strength and pride

What i learned from you made me this way
yet its so hard to explain
but every moment of every day
Thoughts of you enter my brain

You can do as you please
I’m yours and your free

For years I been so alone
Heartbroken and empty
yet your Gentle whispers on the phone
set my stresses free

Your lips paralyze
I’ll forever gaze into your eyes
If you’ll have me as yours
I’ll unlock my hearts heavy doors

Every time we are kissing
I know its something real
Its always been you I’ve been missing
Its how you make me feel

You cleanse my world of all my fear
make life seem so clear
As you hang up the phone
once again I’m all alone

As i lay here reminiscing
Its only you baby I been missing.

This poem was written/submitted by Michael Reddig.