CRACKING

The ground is cracking

underneath my frozen feet,

everything is shaking

while I moan, and wail, and weep.

Every time I look

there’s another crack,

and another fissure opens up,

to claim my good life back.

My life is cracking,

and my heart is pounding with the fear,

that someday I may just fall in,

and I shall disappear.

My little house that keeps me safe,

may slide into a deep abyss,

and all I have, and all I love,

will slide into the deep, with it.

I know it’s just the fear I feel,

that I will loose all I hold dear,

but I will loose it anyway,

if I don’t learn, how to live here.

I’m going to have to learn to step

around the cracks, and my own fright,

to live, and love what happens,

and disregard what might.

©Roisin Duffy

TITLE: CRACKING

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