A Melancholy Mind

Could you not find the strength to climb-
one friend to call at just that time?
Dark sadness overcame your mind-
now questions are the words I find.

Could you not know that I was there
with strength enough? God knows I care.
If only I could only turn back time,
forgetting all these words of rhyme.

I'd stop the world that's what I'd do,
while pouring love all over you,
to soothe your mind, I'd battle hell,
but you lost hope then quickly fell.

I'd trade my soul, you know that Kim,
to hold you in my arms again-
but all I feel are words that rhyme,
eternity and wasted time.

Sherry Pedersen-Thrasher


"Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister"Alice Walker