* Time

Hope?
Where did it go?
Time?
Suddenly she was 60 something
Suddenly her body writhed in pain
Suddenly she saw before her
all her lost potential
all her talent
her voice
her music
the longing
deep in her soul
to create art
to dance
to act in
live theatre
to dig into history
to perhaps find another King Tuts tomb.
All quashed
all stepped on
all given up
to please
to be perfect
to make her parents
happy and proud
Now they
are gone
and she sits in
her small room
in the candle light pondering her life.

June 2009 Journal