Able To Cry Poem by Yande Phiri

Grieved at how inadequate my life seems
Unable to smile at the simplest of things,
Where love is present only imagination I see
Blinded to light damned to a dark eternity.

I cant understand why green grass grows
Why flowers bloom, why sadness looms.
Life keeps getting in my way
Spirit broken tears blood day after day

I spend contemplating; reflecting on me
Pondering like the ebb and flow of destiny
Reminding me of shining stars and glowing moons
Of Painful scars and shadowed jewels

Deep inside behind my eyes
A dormant innocence there lies
Overshadowed by anger and guilt
Dying flame a flower to wilt.