Art & Poetry - "Guarded"

"Guarded"

By Laura Mercurio Ebohon   Copyright 2009   *All rights reserved

You think you can win
spreading your rage all around me!
See …My love is stronger than your hate
Higher than your bullets
You want to kill my dreams
turning them into nightmares
But Faith is NOT pain
You throw heavy words
like swords and I laugh, crying,
My skin is harder,
You won’t cause wounds
If I get hurt I will bleed inside
And you will never see the truth
You will be standing there
looking and feeling right,
And I will be smiling
The smile of suffering,
Guarded,
Covering the scars with my hands
meeting my soul in prayers
where we were once ONE,
in complete harmony,
when Love was Peace
a time so far away
lost in tears and screams!
You will never see the truth,
through the thin crack of your eyes,
only the endless wire of accusations
will penetrate and invade your brain
made of hard pieces of iron
banging against the soft walls of my heart
And now I stay still, on standby,
Guarded,
Until your next attack to my weakened fortress.