Wild Tantrums

Crystal Sorensen

Wild tantrums could not stop this wind,

from blowing away these seeds of dreams.

And I ask you why you love me.

Words can only find moments in a life,

Moments where only purity can reveal true beauty.

Words can only promise things that may never happen.

And you say I’m a sweet girl,

but how come I feel so dark tonight?

How come I cannot look into your eyes and promise you,

I won’t run?

So gentle I try to be,

that I lose the vigor that once allowed me to conquer the world.

And time keeps on,

but I feel you in the dark and I close my eyes to dream,

dream of a distant sailor, who’d one day rescue me from this struggle within

But reality whispers,

that sailboats cannot save a soul from the sand

and I looked into that hard glass,

that shook violently in my trembling branches.

It took time to see a lucid face,

but I found it somewhere in the dark carress of twilight,

hidden in a place untouched,

a place somewhere inside that saves the little girl,

I can no longer console.

For the courage to love, one day, the pain that has watered my garden.

The pain of loving too much.

Loving so, that that untouched place becomes unguarded.

And I am brave enough once again to look into that glass,

no longer so hard,

and see the beautiful angel of hope,

who once looked out through my eyes.