peace

in chaos I found abandonment

in abandonment, I found peace

I looked too hard for compassion

and for my pain to ease

in quite solitude--what I looked to for

and what I prayed to find

was locked up in a chamber

but hid there this whole time

Poetry by M.J.B. is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License