Heart On Fire Poem by Carey Lenehan

I'm not inspired by love today
And with the sky a solid grey
The world of nature leaves me numb
I'm trying but the words won't come
I'm not much lifted by my child
Absorbed in cartoon heaven
In fact there isn't much at all
To bring me words unbidden

Yet I need to purge my mind
Let feelings out I cannot find
Speak of things profound and deep
Not let my inspiration sleep
Frustration is a sticky web
It's trapped my words again
Immersed me in it's sticky thread
And bound up all my pain

I can feel the words are there
But cannot find them anywhere
There's war and loss and death and fear
Out in the world both far and near
I want to tell you how I feel
But nothing's happening to me
Lost in a world that isn't real
I'm floating in a wordless sea

Trees are green, the day is cold
Rain is falling on my world
Kids dying hungry as I sit
Looking at the words I've writ
Nothing matters anyway
I haven't got a clue
There's not much wrong with me today
I've only lost my view

Once there were a thousand things
My ready words could give them wings
Eloquence and elegance
Challenging deliverance
Now here I sit in emptiness
Drained of all but blank desire
Brimful of things I can't express
My brain like ice, my heart on fire