Stephanie van Oudtshoorn

It begins as a tinkling,
glowing feeling.
Swelling within you;
growing inside
...

there are many things in life
that can make the heart
be more
of a whole
...

I wish you would leave
let my body be at peace
Release my mind!
from its caged existance
...

You say you love me
This i know is true
though it is rarely shown by you
It's not something you hear
...

What if a butterfly
became a catepillar
- would you recognise it?
it being beautiful no more
...

Cast torn upon the roadside
Lying broken in contemplation
Thoughts flowing through my head
...

Such a strange emotion
Can have you in tears at the slightest word
A misinterpreted phrase
or gesture
...

as my tears scream to be let loose
you pretend to be sorry
when you open a door
only a crack
...

For you that I love
I would plunge myself into the deep unknown
and hope that love alone
would be enough to keep me afloat.
...

the days and hours before a thunderstorm
torture me as much with its promise of drops
as with the energy soaking the air
...

As I walked away
With your heart in my hands
Mine was tortured
By your look of misery
...

Torn between darkness and light
In the darkness you can hide
creep away into yourself
It's where you're safe
...

indecision is the precipice of a cliff
miscalculation the crevice below

one wrong thought or idea
...

when you see me
pass me by
but pass quietly,
slowly and carefully
...

this silence
crushing in on me
from all sides
it seems unimaginable
...

love is a story that lasts a lifetime
that fills a book
completes the epilogue
and begins again
...

You are the thing inside me
The thing that hurts
The thing that cries
far below the surface you reside
...

That time could leap-frog
and life itself hop forward.

It's amazing how from confusion
...

You stand at the house's threshold
Considering the weather outside.

Your face inches from theirs
...