A Love Poem

You Are

You are the whispers on the wind

You are the sunbeams that light my day

You are the starlight that lights my dreams

You are the silver of the moon and the rushing waterfalls

You are the snowflakes that kiss my face with a lovers' lips

You are the one who brings me love and laughter as daylight fades

and night time falls

You are the one I kiss each night before I sleep

You are the one beside me as each new day dawns

You are the one I will love and cherish

for evermore

You and I are as one until

we are but whispers on the wind

Copyright @ Carol Arnall 2013

Lost Within My Mind - for my mom and mother-in-law

Lost Within My Mind

I’m in another place

It’s a place I do not know

I’m afraid, confused lost in this space

Within my mind

They say I’m old and have lost my mind

They say there is no cure

They laugh and scoff when I try to say

I am still me here within my mind

No-one knows me anymore

No-one listens

No-one talks to me when I try to tell them

I am still me here within my mind

I did not ask to come to this place

This place I do not know

A place where I am lonely, sad and cry

This place where I am lost within my mind

I wish they would understand

I am here within my mind

I am not an empty shell

I am still me asking to be loved

Not left behind, forgotten in this place

Simply because  at times I am lost within my mind

Copyright Carol Arnall September 2012 

I wrote this one evening after speaking with my mother-in-law who suffered with Alzeimer's disease. She sadly died. I miss her so much, My mother suffered from the same disease and I miss her every minute of every day terribly. On Mother's day they both occupy my thoughts continuously.